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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REG'ICIDE, n. [L. rex, king, and caedo, to slay.]
1. A king-killer; one who murders a king.
2. The killing or murder of a king.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin reg-, rex king + English -cide — more at royal Date: circa 1548 1. a person who kills a king 2. the killing of a king • regicidal adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who kills or takes part in killing a king. 2 the act of killing a king. Derivatives: regicidal adj. Etymology: L rex regis king + -CIDE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Regicide Reg"i*cide (r?j"?*s?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. 2. The killing or the murder of a king.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(regicides) 1. Regicide is the act of killing a king. He had become czar through regicide. 2. A regicide is a person who kills a king. Some of the regicides were sentenced to death. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Murderer of a king, king-killer. 2. Murder of a king.

Moby Thesaurus

aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide