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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Dē'i-çīde, n.

noun

n. [Lat. deus, god, and cædere, to cut, kill; Fr. déicide, It. deicidio.]

  1. The act of putting to death a being possessing a divine nature; particularly, that of putting Jesus Christ to death. [Rare.] “Earth profaned, yet blessed with deicide.” Prior.
  2. One concerned in putting Christ to death.