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regicide


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  regicide 
  n  1:  someone  who  commits  regicide;  the  killer  of  a  king 
  2:  the  act  of  killing  a  king 




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