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Deicide   Listen
noun
Deicide  n.  
1.
The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ. (R.) "Earth profaned, yet blessed, with deicide."
2.
One concerned in putting Christ to death.





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"Deicide" Quotes from Famous Books



... stir in the matter; it deplores and prays, which seems, in some respects, an ineffectual method of protecting the latens Deitas. If the Eucharist be liable to profanation, why reserve the Eucharist? Surely the negligence which makes such profanations possible is the offer of opportunity to Deicide, and great carelessness is cousin to condonation. However this may be, Mgr. Meurin seems to have been quite the authority to whom one would naturally refer for specific information upon devil-worship as it obtains within his own ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite


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