Word Meanings - SORORICIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister. Johnson.

Related words: (words related to SORORICIDE)

• SISTER
  AS. sweostor, sweoster, swuster, akin to OFries. sweester, suster, LG. süster, suster, D. zuster, OS. & OHG. swestar, G. schwester, Icel. systir, Sw. syster, Dan. söster, Goth. swistar, Lith. ses, Russ. sestra, Pol. siostra, L. soror, Skr. svasr.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• MURDER
  The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder,
• SISTERING
  Contiguous. Shak.
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• MURDERMENT
  Murder. Farfax.
• MURDERESS
  A woman who commits murder.
• MURDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak.
• SISTERLY
  Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.
• SISTER-IN-LAW
  The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.
• SISTERHOOD
  1. The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel. 2. A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith
• MURDERER
  1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. 2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• SELF-MURDER
  Suicide.
• STEPSISTER
  A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
• UNSISTER
  To separate, as sisters; to disjoin. Tennyson.
• SELF-MURDERER
  A suicide.
• RESISTER
  One who resists.
• HALF-SISTER
  A sister by one parent only.
• UNSISTERLY
  Not sisterly. Richardson.