[f. as prec.: see -CIDE 2.] The action of killing a son or daughter.

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1665.  J. Webb, Stone-Heng (1725), 217. Homicide, Filicide, Fratricide, Patricide, Matricide and Regicide.

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1839.  F. Barham, The Adamus Exul of Grotius, 47.

                        Let not the race
Of mortal men, by one delirious deed,
Utterly perish, thro’ our filicide.

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1879.  A. E. Sproul, in Boston Herald, 3 May. Additional details of the Pocasset filicide are given below.

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  Hence Filicidal a. concerned with the slaughter of sons and daughters.

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1852.  J. B. Owen, in Ld. Ingestre’s Meliora, I. 133. He had swallowed his children piecemeal, as at the banquet of a Thyestes, before his ruin realized the filicidal fable of Saturn, in swallowing his whole family, in the end.

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