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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.


regicide

/ ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. the killing of a king
  2. a person who kills a king
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌregiˈcidal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • regi·cidal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of regicide1

1540–50; < Latin rēg-, stem of rēx king + -i- + -cide
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Word History and Origins

Origin of regicide1

C16: from Latin rēx king + -cide
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Example Sentences

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

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.

A less revolutionary assembly never met, though there was a regicide or two among them.

After the Restoration Axtell was put to his trial as a “regicide.”

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