Regicide

Word REGICIDE
Character 8
Hyphenation reg i cide
Pronunciations /ˈɹedʒəsaɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Regicide"

What do we mean by regicide?

The killing of a king. noun

One who kills a king. noun

The killing of a king. noun

A king-killer; one who puts a king to death; specifically, in English history, a member of the high court of justice constituted by Parliament for the trial of Charles I., by which he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death in 1649. noun

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death. noun

The killing or the murder of a king. noun

The killing of a king. noun

One who kills a king. noun

Someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king noun

The act of killing a king noun

The killing of a king.

One who kills a king.

To kill the King. To kill the Queen. To kill a Monarch. Urban Dictionary

1. To kill a king or queen 2. To hurt Donald Trump's feelings Urban Dictionary

V. Regicide is the killing of a monarch or monarchs. For those with limited vocabs, a monarch is a King or Queen. N. A killer of Monarchs Urban Dictionary

Killing a / the King or Queen Urban Dictionary

The assassination of Reggie Jackson. Urban Dictionary

The act of killing Reggie Fils-Aime Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Regicide

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The word "regicide" in example sentences

The King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation. ❋ Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 (1890)

King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation. ❋ Richard Garnett (1870)

Abidan’s justification for regicide is a deliberate satire of Cromwell’s views: ‘King! ❋ Unknown (1979)

For they say not regicide, that is, killing of a king, but tyrannicide, that is, killing of a tyrant, is lawful. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The revisionist view of Cromwell as a liberator rather than a regicide was the work of Thomas Carlyle in the 1840s, and a result of Carlyle's friendship with Emerson. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mencius refuses to classify as regicide the killing of the wicked king Zhou, on the grounds that he was not truly a king. ❋ Robins, Dan (2007)

The judges are called regicide, because they tried and condemned a king. ❋ William Patterson Atkinson (N/A)

The death of a regicide was a sort of gala to these belles; while the lead was melting over the furnace, the iron pinchers heating in the fire, and the horses disposed for tearing asunder the four quarters of the victim of the laws, some of them amused themselves with an innocent game at cards, in sight of all these terrible preparations, from which a man of ordinary feeling would avert his looks with horror. ❋ Francis W. Blagdon (1798)

This clergyman, who is known as a "regicide," or king murderer, and who suffered a most terrible death in London on the accession of Charles II, succeeded Roger Williams in the church at ❋ Hezekiah Butterworth (1872)

While regicide began petering out once societies had more settled lines of succession and legal codes, it has not entirely died out – and with power passing to politicians, they have assumed much of the risk. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This led to many rebellions, even a regicide, and to much loss of life. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

See also Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 for a psychoanalytic-inflected interpretation of regicide and fratricide in the French Revolution. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

For all its glory, the theater owes its existence to an attempted regicide. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

They had lived through regicide, revolution, civil war. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Paine evoked it against throne and altar, but the French royalists of the 1790s rallied "common sense" against regicide and atheism. ❋ Jeffrey Collins (2011)

And the final handshake between Prospero and his usurping brother exceeds the bonds of fraternal love: Antonio, after all, is the man who kicked Prospero out of Milan, incites Sebastian to an act of regicide, and remains ominously silent at the play's end. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[Queen Elizabeth] I was forced to commit regicide in executing Mary Queen of [Scots], but ultimately had no choice since Mary Queen of Scots was continuously [plotting] acts of failed regicide against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. ❋ The Moody Poet (2007)

1. The guillotining of [Louis XVI] was a regicide. 2. A [FOX News] host accused the [Democrats] of regicide. ❋ Catty McGee (2019)

The [fierce] Regicide left [the King] and [Queen] both dead. ❋ El Malvado (2005)

Don't [worry], my [plan] isn't [regicide]. ❋ GodOfHyperdeath (2016)

"[Your honor], [this is a] [clear] case of Regicide!" ❋ Jackie Childs (2008)

Person: Hey did you know someone [committed] [regicide] Person 2: oh no [Reggie] Fils-Aime’s dead?! ❋ A Man That Has A Name (2021)

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