ETYM French régicide; Latin rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Related to Homicide.
1. Someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king.
2. The act of killing a king.
Person who kills a monarch. In British history, there were the forty-nine signatories on the instrument of execution for Charles I of England in 1649, together with the two executioners (who were anonymous). After the Restoration in 1660, 29 of these men were put on trial and ten were sentenced to death.
Killing or killer of king; person who signed death-warrant of Charles I of England, or Louis xvi of France. + prikaži više