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magistricide

magistricide noun: the killing of one's master or teacher.

Noun

magistricide (plural magistricides)

  1. (rare) The killing of one's master or teacher.
    • I believe this approach is especially appropriate for many of our students in Hong Kong and, perhaps, in Taiwan as well, to offset their subservient attitude to the authority of their teachers or the printed word of commentators. In fact, I find myself recommending that students consider...1991, Tamkang Review, volumes 22-23, page 128
    • It was nonetheless precisely over a book review that YM and I came to a parting of the ways. I presumed to criticize in print a work of his, an action which he labeled, in a characteristically pedantic term, as "magistricide."
      […]
      In all the time I knew YM, both before and after my "magistricide,"...1998 September 22, Jerry R. Craddock, Peter F. Dembowski, Samuel G. Armistead, Edward F. Tuttle, Barbara De Marco, “Yakov Malkiel, 1914-1998”, in Romance Philology
  2. (rare) A person who kills their master or teacher.
    • "4. In another room below I saw the statue of Seneca bleeding to death. It is of a black stone like jet; than which nothing can be blacker but the crimes of Nero the magistricide, who put this rare man his master to death. […]1831, Thomas Roscoe, The Tourist in Italy, Robert Jennings and William Chaplin, page 219

Forms of magistricide

pluralmagistricides

Origin of magistricide

From Latin magister + -cide.

Questions about magistricide

What does magistricide mean?
Magistricide means the killing of one's master or teacher.
What part of speech is magistricide?
Magistricide is a noun.
What is the plural of magistricide?
The plural of magistricide is magistricides.

Words near magistricide in the dictionary

  1. magistratical
  2. magistratically
  3. magistrative
  4. magistrature
  5. magistratures
  6. magistricide
  7. magistricides
  8. magitech
  9. magitek
  10. magitian
  11. magitians

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