regicide

4 definitions found

regicide - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

regicide - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

regicide - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

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

regicide - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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