Noun
One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
The killing or the murder of a king.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor the 20th century philosopher Jean-François Lyotard the regicide was the starting point of all French thought, the memory of which acts as a reminder that French modernity began under the sign of a crime. Source: Internet
He was the first regicide to be hanged, drawn and quartered because he was considered by the new government to represent a continued real threat to the re-established order. Source: Internet
He is unsure whether Macbeth committed regicide to gain the throne, but muses in a soliloquy that "I fear / Thou play'dst most foully for 't". Source: Internet
Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française and Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins, in particular, showed the marks of the feelings aroused by the revolution's regicide. Source: Internet
In August Pridi was forced to resign amid suspicion that he had been involved in the regicide. Source: Internet
The beginning of Act Four is marked by the quarrel scene, where Brutus attacks Cassius for soiling the noble act of regicide by accepting bribes ("Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? Source: Internet