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Definition of Regicide
1. Noun. Someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king.
2. Noun. The act of killing a king.
Definition of Regicide
1. n. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
Definition of Regicide
1. Noun. The killing of a king. ¹
2. Noun. One who kills a king. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Regicide
1. the killing of a king [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regicide
Literary usage of Regicide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"Mr. Pennant, the historian, also states that Jones the regicide was a Merionethshire
man. If further proof were wanting that Colonel John Jones, ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1877)
"EDWARD WHALLEY, THE regicide. BY EGBERT PATTERSON ROBINS. There has been much
written and said concerning the life of this most remarkable man, ..."
3. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1899)
"... get an answer to the question, by what instrument a gracious Providence had
interposed for their rescue. The regicide It was the regicide Colonel Goffe. ..."
4. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"Two of the regicide judges, who had sat in the tribunal which condemned his
father, escaped to New England in 1660 and were well received there. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"wrought by the blood of Charles I, yet he married the granddaughter of a regicide.
Wiseman's works are written in so plain and simple a style that they were ..."
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