regiciden.1adj.
/ˈrɛdʒᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəˌsaɪd/ A. n.1
1. A person who kills a king, esp. a subject who kills his or her own king; a person who commits the crime of regicide. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of king
regicide1548
king-killer1581
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xiiijv Our posterite shal be reproued as children of Homecides, ye of Regicides & prince quellers.
1579 B. Garter Newyeares Gifte sig. E.ii So the stone with the miserable Traytor fell downe to the pauements of the Church, and was with the same stone crushed.., a wonderfull example of Gods iust iudgement to suche Regicides.
1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Oxon 5 Nov. 28 They..become paricides, Regicides, Regnicides at once.
1615 T. Adams Englands Sicknes i. 46 Regicides are no lesse then Regnicides; for the life of a king containes a thousand thousand liues.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xiv. §20. 229 Of which sort are Traytors, Regicides, and such as take up armes against the City.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian iv. iii. 108 That I miss'd [your life] Was the propitious errour of my fate, Not of my Soul; my Soul's a Regicide.
1765 W. Shirley Electra i. i. 12 The swords Of Regicides, yet reeking with the blood Of Agamemnon.
1792 M. Deverell Mary, Queen of Scots sig. P4v Else the marble-hearted regicides..will kill her sleeping.
1834 Blackwood's Mag. 36 360/2 The regicide [Lady Macbeth] lied against herself, in saying that under any circumstances she could have been an infanticide.
1895 ‘Ouida’ in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 241 He was, in his prime, a regicide; he is, in his old age, a liberticide.
1923 M. E. Durham in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 596 The notorious regicide Damian Popovitch, the instigator of many atrocities.
1976 A. MacLean Golden Gate v. 97 Any of your subjects..would find himself rather precipitately in paradise—if regicides go to paradise.
2. spec.
a. English History. A participant in the prosecution, trial, and execution of Charles I in 1649 following his defeat in the Civil War.In quot. 1648 referring to a politician plotting the trial of the King with a view to his likely execution.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > participant in specific revolution
regicide1648
revolutioner1690
sansculotte1790
federate1793
regicide1793
terrorist1794
Thermidorian1801
tricoteuse1828
filibuster1854
nihilist1868
peshmerga1963
1648 Mercurius Bellicus No. 23. 3 Osburne stands to his tackling, and hath impeached many more of the Regicides, what this will produce wee shall heare suddenly.
1649 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1870) 417 The late good service he did for his Masters the Regicides in murdering their most gracious Soveraigne Lord, King Charles the First.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1660 (1955) III. 258 Those barbarous Regicides, who sat on the life of our late King, [were] brought to their Tryal in the old baily.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 162 The Regicides were at that time odious beyond all expression.
1737 W. Havard King Charles I v. i. 48 Will future Ages, when they read my Page, (Tho' Charles himself absolves me of the Deed) Spare me the Name of Regicide? O no!
1766 J. Ussher Free Exam. Common Methods employed to prevent Popery 146 In the course of Providence King Charles II. came to the Throne, and the Regicides were called to an account for their villainies.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 374 Where by the statute 12 Cha. II. all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments of the regicides were forfeited to the Crown.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §2. 605 In the punishment of the Regicides indeed, a Presbyterian might well be as zealous as a cavalier.
1927 Observer 8 May 15/2 The spirit that animated the restored Caroleans in their exhumatory operations against the regicides.
1981 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 75 617/1 The regicide, Cromwell, died in September, 1658 of an acute intermittent fever sometimes of a quartan nature.
2000 Hist. Today Oct. 27/1 Would she portray Cromwell as a regicide and destroyer of Parliament or as a Carlylean hero?
b. French History. A participant in the prosecution, trial, and execution of Louis XVI in 1793 during the French Revolution.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > participant in specific revolution
regicide1648
revolutioner1690
sansculotte1790
federate1793
regicide1793
terrorist1794
Thermidorian1801
tricoteuse1828
filibuster1854
nihilist1868
peshmerga1963
1793 L. C. de Starhemberg Memorial 5 Apr. in Jordan's Parl. Jrnl. 2 349 Some of these detestable regicides are now in such a situation, that they can be subjected to the sword of the law.
1796 E. Burke Thoughts Prospect Regicide Peace i. 5 The Regicide was the first to declare war. We are the first to sue for peace.
1809 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 161/1 The regicides of France were poor theatrical imitators.
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 508 The king had granted a pardon to Meunier who had been condemned by the Court of Peers as a regicide.
1919 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 27 86 The moderate deputies who had refused to vote for the death of Louis XVI were treated by the regicides as conspirators.
1982 18th-cent. Stud. 15 350 Jordan believes that the regicides were right: to do other than execute Louis would have been to opt against revolution.
1993 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 July 4 Philippe Egalite..voted for the death of his Bourbon cousin Louis XVI in 1793, becoming a regicide.
B. adj. (attributive).
Participating in, supporting, or involving the killing of a king.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of king
king-killing1608
regicide1644
regicidal1660
1644 J. Howell Englands Teares 7 The greatest staines in my story were the violent deaths they suffered by the hands of their owne (Regicide) Subjects.
1681 F. Philipps Ursa Major & Minor 33 Oliver Cromwell and his Party of Regicide Rebels.
1703 H. Michel Duplex in Carolo-cidas Querela i. 3 Nay, we are all so far from siding with those unquiet and regicide Sects.
1757 W. Harris Fiction Unmasked 180 Those English, who by the sole gift of Cromwell, and of the Regicide Party, had been for some Years possessed of those Estates of the Irish.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 108 A groupe of regicide and sacrilegious slaughter. View more context for this quotation
1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 244 The Cordeliers were the regicide portion of the Jacobins.
1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. viii. 161 The murder of his regicide ambassador.
1873 J. W. De Forest Wetherel Affair xxxiii. 130 I thought of that regicide judge who used to appear to our New England fathers now and then.
1949 Times 11 Mar. 5/6 A trial is now in progress in which four men are charged with complicity in a regicide plot.
1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea iv. 81 A fellow with wild, bloody, regicide revolutionary ideas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
regiciden.2
/ˈrɛdʒᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəˌsaɪd/ The action of killing of a king; an instance of this.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of king
regicide1579
king-killing1606
regicidation1661
tsaricide1883
1579 B. Garter Popes Common Seale to Al Bulles in New Yeares Gift (Poem section) 61 Then goth he to the greasie Abbot straight..Who weepes for ioy, and nowe concludes the baight, Whereby (alas) this Regicide is wrought.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. li. 234 That doth Rebellion, Regecide, and breach of Othes allow.
1644 E. Dering Disc. Proper Sacrifice b iv The first Regicide..was that of the Emperour Mauritius.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 303 The late Rebells Usurpation, & Regicide.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 48 Did Fate, or we, when great Atrides dy'd, Urge the bold traitor to the Regicide?
1735 G. Lillo Christian Hero i. i. 12 Must I have been a Recompense for Murther! For Regicide, the Murther of his King!
1796 E. Burke Thoughts Prospect Regicide Peace i. 2 The advances we have made to the Republick of Regicide, are made on a consistent plan.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. iii. 80 A crime only inferior to sacrilege, or regicide.
1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors xv. 662 Marlowe..shows Edward smothered, sparing only one incident of that unnatural regicide.
1928 S. Leslie Skull of Swift xiii. 271 Gulliver's hints of rebellion and regicide were enough to frighten the printer, who introduced revisions in Gulliver's account of England to his Houyhnhnm master.
1978 Language 54 285 One can speculate that Odysseus, if affronted by Agamemnon as Achilles was, would..use the oratory of the persuader, and his own astuteness, to engineer a successful regicide.
2003 Independent 19 Dec. (Review section) 27/3 Joanne Harris's latest historical jolly is set in 17th-century France against the backdrop of regicide and religious frenzy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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