The World of Dr. Justice
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Word of the Day: “magistricide”
Pronounced
“ma-JISS-tra-side”.
It means “killing your teacher”.
Etymology:
From Latin MAGISTER ‘teacher’, the source of our words
master
and (less directly)
mister
; plus -CIDE, as in
homicide, infanticide, insecticide
.
For a blood-curdling illustration, click here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/12/freud-chomsky-and-problem-of-acolytes.html
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