Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the slaying of a god.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
deicide
Etymologies
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Examples
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One more example: there is nothing wrong with being Jewish, but when Jew is used as a perjorative for being cheap or greedy or deicidal, then it becomes defamatory.
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For MG, his clash with the cosmopolitan forces of capitalism and Communism are merged--they are both the grinning face of the devil, and they are absorbed & subsumed in the person of some ancient deicidal tribe.
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Before their temples were piled pyramids of human skulls; the deities were placated by human sacrifice, and at times, according to the deicidal and theophagous rites common to many primitive superstitions, themselves sacrificed in effigy or in the person of a beautiful captive and their flesh eaten in sacramental cannibalism.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Soon, not content with limiting the power of the Eternal, man, increasingly deicidal in his tendencies, insists on sharing it.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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But he's the nasty solution to a worse problem that requires a deicidal madman.
The Cultural Gutter Carol Borden 2010
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But he's the nasty solution to a worse problem that requires a deicidal madman.
The Cultural Gutter Carol Borden 2010
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Probably because he has been driven into deicidal madness after Ares tricks Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter.
The Cultural Gutter Carol Borden 2010
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Probably because he has been driven into deicidal madness after Ares tricks Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter.
The Cultural Gutter Carol Borden 2010
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The innocent Abel prefigured Christ, while Cain prefigured the deicidal Jews, his fratricide the first of their many acts of perfidy against God and his prophets.
unknown title 2009
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