regicide

[ rej-uh-sahyd ]

noun
  1. the killing of a king.

  2. a person who kills a king or is responsible for his death, especially one of the judges who condemned Charles I of England to death.

Origin of regicide

1
1540–50; <Latin rēg-, stem of rēx king + -i- + -cide

Other words from regicide

  • reg·i·cid·al, adjective

Words Nearby regicide

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How to use regicide in a sentence

  • We find in the Old Testament that the regicide is applauded; that treason and rebellion are approved.

    Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
  • I would even go further, and say that, without any warm devotion to a king, a man may hate a regicide.

  • Roma imagined she could see everything as it was intended353 to be—the signal, the rising, the regicide.

    The Eternal City | Hall Caine
  • A less revolutionary assembly never met, though there was a regicide or two among them.

    Andrew Marvell | Augustine Birrell
  • After the Restoration Axtell was put to his trial as a “regicide.”

    Andrew Marvell | Augustine Birrell

British Dictionary definitions for regicide

regicide

/ (ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd) /


noun
  1. the killing of a king

  2. a person who kills a king

Origin of regicide

1
C16: from Latin rēx king + -cide

Derived forms of regicide

  • regicidal, adjective

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