matricide

[Fr.=mother-killing, from Lat. matricida =murderer of a mother; mater (gen it. matris )=a mother, and cædo (in compos. -cido )=to kill; matricidium =the murder of one's mother; Ital. & Sp. matricidio.] 1. One who kills or murders his or her mother. 2. The killing or murder of a mother. "Nature compensates the death of the father by the matricide and murder of the mother."-Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. iii., ch. xvii. mat-ri-çite, c. [Lat. matrix =the mother-stone of another mineral; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A mineral occurring in crystalline fibrous of spodiosite (q. v.), at the Kran mines, Wermland, ma es with concentric structure, including crystals Sweden. Hardne , 3-4; specific gravity, 2.53; luster, pearly; color, gray; feel, greasy. Composition: Silica, 33-99; magnesia, 37-96; lime, 5.64; alumina, 133; protoxide of iron, 182; protoxide of manga nese, 0.47; soda, 0-98; water, 17.81. *ma-tric-u-la, s. [Lat.=a register.] [MATRICULATE, a.] A register, a roll. ma-tric-u-lāte, v. t. & i. [MATRICULATE, a.; Ital. mat rico lare; Sp. matricular.] A. Trans .: To enter in a register; to register; to enroll; spec if., to admit to membership of a body or society, and especially of a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. "That every scholar shall have been matricu lated twenty-four calendar m months at least."- Black stone : Comment., §1. (Introd.) chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; matrix B. In trans.: To be admitted to a membership of a college or university by pa ing an examination and having one's name enrolled in the register. *ma-tric-u-late, a . . [Low Lat. matriculatus , pa. par. of matriculo =to enroll, to register; Latin matricula a register; dim in. of matrix =(1) breeding animal, (2) a womb, (3) a public register.) A. As adj .: Admitted or entered as member of a body or society, and especially of a college or university; matriculated. "To be matriculate, with ladies of a state." Skelton: Crowne of Laurell. B. As subst.: One who is matriculated or enrolled as a member of a body or society, and especially of a college or university. "Suffer me in the name of the matriculates of that famous university to ask them some plain questions."Arbuthnot. ma-tric-u-lā-tion, s. [MATRICULATE, v.] The act of matriculating; the state of being matriculated. măt-ri-mô-ni-al, a . [Fr., from Lat. matrimo nialis , from mat rim onium =matrimony; Sp. & Port. matrimonial; Ital. matrimoniale .] 1. Of or pertaining to marriage or wedlock; connubial, nuptial, hymeneal. "The main article in matrimonial alliances."- Paley : Moral Philosophy , bk. iii., ch. viii. *2. Derived from marriage. "If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at curtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power, the right remaining in his queen." - Bacon : Henry VII . matrimonial-causes, s. pl. Law : Suits for the redre of injuries respecting the rights of marriage. matrimonial-crown, s . Scots Law & Hist .: A grant by which the husband of the Scottish queen acquired the right to a ume the title of king, to have his name stamped upon the coins, and to place his signature side by side with that of the queen upon all public documents. mat-ri-mō-ni-al-ly, adv . [Eng. matrimonial ; -ly .] In a matrimonial manner; according to the laws or customs of marriage; as a husband or wife. *măt-ri-mō-ni-ous, a . [Eng. matrimony; -ous.) Matrimonial. "Foreseeing the miserable work that man's ignorance and pusillanimity would make in this matrimonious busine ."- Milton : Tetrachord on. măt-ri-môn-ў, *mat-ri-moine, *mat-ri-monie, *mat-ry-mon-ye, s . [O. Fr. matrimonie , from Lat. mat rim onium , from mater (gen it. matris ) = a mother; Sp., Port. & Ital. matrimonio .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Marriage, wedlock; the married state; the union of man and wife for life. *2. A wife. "Restore my matrimony undefiled." Beaum. & Flet.: Little French Lawyer, iv. 5. 3 A game at cards. *4. A mixture of raisins and almonds, or any similar mixture. II. Roman Theology: One of the seven sacraments of the Roman Church, nece ary for the community, but not for the individual, just as the Sacrament of Orders is nece ary for the Church at large, but not for each individual Christian. Matrimony is a contract raised to the dignity of a sacrament. As a contract, it is "a lawful marital union between a man and a woman obliging them to lifelong participation in each other's society;" as a sacrament, it "confers grace, sanctifying the legitimate union of a man and a woman." It was defined as a sacrament at the Council of Trent (se . xxiv.), on Nov. 11, 1553. In the "Doctrina de Sacramento Matrimonii," prefixed to the Canons of that se ion, the indi olubility of matrimony is said to be foreshown in Gen. ii. 23, 24, and ratified by Christ (Matt. it is a erted that the made fath, Coul, and xix. 3-9). Reference is to Eph. v. 31, 32; the universal tradition of the Church have always. taught that matrimony is justly to be reckoned among the Sacraments of the New Law."