regicidaladj.

1660 R. L'Estrange Apol. with Short View 126 I shall appeal now to the Declaration it self; to which our Regicidall Babler refers the world for satisfaction.

1664 E. Dillon To Kings most Excellent Majesty 13 Th'Injustice of that Regicidal Court.

1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court xiii. 35 In vain saith Thames, the Regicidal Breed Will swarm again.

1777 W. Hooper tr. C.-A. Helvétius Treat. Man I. Table of Contents Every intolerant religion is essentially regicidal, that its intolerance supposes a desire to reign over the people, and over kings.

1813 Grattan in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 11 May This oath abjured the regicidal power attributed to the Pope.

1834 B. Disraeli Revolutionary Epick ii. xxiv. 127 The regicidal steel that shall redeem A nation's sorrow with a tyrant's blood.

1883 Goldw. Smith in Ward Eng. Poets II. 381 Marvell, far less compromised and by no means regicidal, remained in public life.

1907 Times 24 May 3/1 Loyal addresses are coming in from all parts congratulating the Emperor upon his escape. Stories of the regicidal plot, each more fantastic than the other, continue to circulate.

1952 Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 871 He never disavowed the principles of 1789, his regicidal vote, or the necessity of the so-called ‘Reign of Terror’.

1992 Independent 2 May (Mag.) 62/2 His brand of anti-royalist fervour never came close to the fiery regicidal tendencies of the Spanish Left.