Regicide

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Regicide \Reg"i*cide\ (r[e^]j"[i^]*s[imac]d), n. [F.
     r['e]gicide; L. rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Cf.
     {Homicide}.]
     1. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.
        Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to
        death.


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     2. The killing or the murder of a king.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  regicide
       n 1: someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
       2: the act of killing a king

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "regicide":
     aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide,
     homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide,
     parricide, patricide, pesticide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide,
     uxoricide, vermicide
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REGICIDE. The killing of a king, and, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des 
  Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300.