Hypertext Webster Gateway: "regicide"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
regicide
n 1: someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
2: the act of killing a king
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