regicide
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
regicide
n 1: someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
2: the act of killing a king
from
The 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]
from
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
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