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papicides

papicides is the plural of papicide.

Meaning of papicide

Noun

papicide (countable and uncountable, plural papicides)

  1. (uncommon) The killing of a pope.
    • The story, which would certainly have moved to tears the readers of Fr Bresciani’s feuilletons, smacked too much of invention and was too oozing with edification to be credible. If only there had been an actual attempted papicide with witnesses!1964, Carlo Falconi, translated by Muriel Grindrod, “Part I: The Build-up”, in Pope John and the Ecumenical Council: A Diary of the Second Vatican Council, September - December 1962, Cleveland, Oh....
  2. (countable, uncommon) One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope.
    • The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.1982, Polish Perspectives, volume XXV, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Wspólczesne RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40

Questions about papicides

What is papicides the plural of?
Papicides is the plural of papicide.

Words near papicides in the dictionary

  1. PAPI
  2. Papiamento
  3. Papiaments
  4. Papiamentu
  5. papicide
  6. papicides
  7. papier collé
  8. papier mache
  9. papier maches
  10. papier-mache
  11. papier-maché

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