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  • 11patricide — pat|ri|cide [ˈpætrısaıd] n [U] the crime of murdering your father →↑matricide, parricide ↑parricide …

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  • 12matricide — noun (U) the crime of murdering your own mother compare parricide (1), patricide …

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  • 13patricide — noun (U) the crime of murdering your father compare matricide, parricide (1) …

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  • 14Parricide — (Latin parricida , killer of a close relative) stemming from (Latin parri , alike or equal, and cida , cide, or killer) is defined as: #the act of murdering one s father (patricide), mother (matricide), or other close relative #the act of… …

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  • 15parricide — See patricide. See patricide, parricide, matricide …

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  • 16Aeschylus — ] The first competition, which Aeschylus would have participated in, was for the tragedians, and consisted of three playwrights each presenting three tragic plays followed by a shorter comedic satyr play. A second competition of five comedic… …

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  • 17Oresteia — The Eumenides redirects here. For mythological deities, see Erinyes. For the Russian language opera, see Oresteia (opera). The Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the… …

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  • 18Filicide — is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The term can also be applied to the parent who has committed such an act. The word filicide derives from the Latin word filius meaning son . In some cultures, killing a… …

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  • 19Sororicide — (from Latin soror sister + cide , from caedere to cut, to kill ) is the act of killing one s own sister.There are a number of examples of sororicide and fratricide (the killing of one s brother) in adolescents, even pre adolescents, where sibling …

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  • 20Great Qing Legal Code — The Great Qing Legal Code or Qing Code ( and sub statutes, the Qing code contained 1,907 statutes from over 30 times of revisions between 1644 and 1912. The Qing code was the last legal code of imperial China. By the end of Qing dynasty, it was… …

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