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▪ I. tyrannicide1|tɪ-, taɪˈrænɪsaɪd|
[a. F. tyrannicide (1583 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. tyrannicīda, f. tyrannus tyrant: see -cide 1. So It. tirannicida.]
One who kills a tyrant.
1657W. Blois Mod. Policies, etc. (ed. 7) C vij, An honest Scot, who complains, that there are not some glorious rewards appointed for Tyrannicides. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. v. M.'s Wks. (1847) 380/1 They..erect statues in their temples to the honour of tyrannicides. 1700Toland Harrington's Oceana Pref. 9 Cremutius Cordus, who was condemn'd by that Monster Tiberius for speaking honorably of the immortal Tyrannicides Brutus and Cassius. 1809Edin. Rev. Apr. 227 [Debry] proposed the formation of a corps of Tyrannicides. 1832Carlyle Misc., Boswell's Johnson (1840) IV. 77 The English Nation had rebelled against a Tyrant; and, by the hands of religious tyrannicides, exacted stern vengeance of him. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Gr. (1898) I. xv. 344 Memories of..Brutus, and other exalted tyrannicides, exalted his imagination. 1904Sat. Rev. 30 July 144 The exact amount of blood-money received by each of the ‘patriots’, who posed as tyrannicides.
▪ II. tyˈrannicide2
[a. F. tyrannicide (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. tyrannicīdium: see prec. and -cide 2. So Pg. tyrannicidio.]
The killing or assassination of a tyrant.
1650Hobbes De Corp. Pol. 165 Tyrannicide, that is, the killing of a Tyrant, not onely Lawful, but also Laudable. 1751Hume Princ. Mor. ii. iii. 29 Tyrannicide or the Assassination of Usurpers and oppressive Princes was highly prais'd in antient Times. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 93 It was in the most patient period of Roman servitude that themes of tyrannicide made the ordinary exercise of boys at school. 1809–10Coleridge Friend i. xv. (1865) 212 It is difficult to conceive a case in which a good man would attempt tyrannicide. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. xxiv. 263 Julian the Apostate is the first instance of tyrannicide that is adduced. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iii. 87 Theognis in one place actually advises tyrannicide. |