papicide

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From papa- +‎ -icide.

Noun[edit]

papicide

  1. (rare) The killing of a pope.
    • 2000, Alan Friedlander, chapter 9, in The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France, published 2021, →ISBN, page 287:
      If Bernard Bec, Peire de Castanet and Arnaud Garsie were, as it seems, telling the truth, it is possible that there occured [sic] at Perugia on 7 July 1304 indeed a case of papicide most foul.
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