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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

regicide
    n 1: someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
    2: the act of killing a king

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Regicide \Reg"i*cide\ (r[e^]j"[i^]*s[imac]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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The killing or the murder of a king.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

REGICIDE. The killing of a king, and, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des 
Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300.

Thesaurus Results for regicide:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide

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