Category:Regicide

Reg"i*cide (rj"*sd), n. Etym: [f. régicide; 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.