1. people who kill prophets or seers
Usage: rare; literary

Examples

• The ancient text warned against the vaticides who silenced divine messengers.
• History records several vaticides who persecuted those claiming prophetic visions.
• The king was labeled among the vaticides for executing the oracle.
• Religious scholars studied the accounts of vaticides throughout different civilizations.
• The novel depicted a society where vaticides were both feared and revered.