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The killing of a king
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regicide
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The broad definition of regicide ( Latin regis "of king" + cida "killer" or cidium "killing") is the deliberate killing of a monarch , or the person responsible for the killing of a person of royalty. In a narrower sense, in the British tradition, it refers ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "man who kills a king," formed from Latin rex (genitive regis ) "king" (see regal ) on model of suicide . Meaning "crime of killing a king" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The killing of a king. 2 One who kills a king.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death. The killing ...
Usage examples of regicide.
Every one was anxious to see how the author of the Genie du Christianisme, the faithful defender of the Bourbons, would bend his eloquence to pronounce the eulogium of a regicide.
In England, because of his extreme Anarchist views, Most broke with Marx and, after serving eighteen months at hard labor for advocating regicide, he emigrated in 1882 to the United States.
It is needless also to remember what Miracles of this nature were performed by the very Bloud of his late Majesty of Blessed memory, after whose decollation by the inhuman Barbarity of the Regicides, the reliques of that were gathered on Chips and in Handkerchieffs by the pious Devotes, who could not but think so great a suffering in so honourable and pious a Cause, would be attended by an extraordinary assistance of God, and some more then ordinary a miracle: nor did their Faith deceive them in this there point, being so many hundred that found the benefit of it.
In his soliloquy before the regicide, Macbeth acknowledges that his deed will entail all the kinds of violence civilization has been struggling to suppress since it first began: violence between the guest and the host, violence by subjects against a monarch, and violence among kinspeople.
First Alias tried to commit regicide on his decidedly unregal person, and now, here I am, about to steal his purse.
Like Caserio, the simple assassin of President Carnot, he was of the type of regicide who becomes obsessed by the delusion that it is his mission to kill the sovereign.
And the Farseers would he accused of sheltering a regicide simply because you were one of the family.
When it was learned that the execution order came from Bonde, the palace guard had arrested him for regicide, and locked him in the dungeon.
He wanted the King to renew his alliance with the Swiss cantons, but was told that the cantons must first expel the regicides of Charles I.
When the president of the section wanted to expulse the regicide, it was the latter who was retained and the president was expelled.
His own father had unsuccessfully attempted something much smaller with his campaign of regicide and concubinage in the North Coast states.