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

Derived Forms

• ˌregiˈcidal, adjective

Other Words From

• regi·cidal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of regicide¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of regicide¹

C16: from Latin rēx king + -cide

Example Sentences

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

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I would even go further, and say that, without any warm devotion to a king, a man may hate a regicide.

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

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

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

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