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deicidal

adj
/deɪ(j)ɪˈsaɪdəɫ/UK

Etymology

From deicide + -al.

  1. borrowed from deicīda
  2. borrowed from deicīdium
  3. suffixed as deicidal — “deicide + al”

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to deicide.

    • Early Christian doctrine professed that the Jews were a deicidal people, condemned by God to dispersion and suffering.
    • "How do you like that, you deicidal maniac? Huh? HUH? Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination."
    • 'Jerusalem overawes me' declared François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, even though this 'deicidal city' was 'a heap of rubbish' with the 'confused monuments of a cemetery in the middle of a desert'.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA