[f. fīli-us, fīlia son, daughter + -CIDE: see -CIDE 1.] One who kills a son or daughter; a slayer of his own child.
1823. Douglas, or Field of Otterburn, III. xx. 267. I sped silently away, fearful of being discovered by the intended filicide.
1848. Lowell, Fable for Critics, Poet. Wks. (Moxon), 365.
| I told how it [the aloe] bloomed, and discharging its pistil | |
| With an aim the Eumenides dictated, shot | |
| The botanical filicide dead on the spot. |
