1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Policies sig. C6^v An honest Scot, who complaines that there are not some glorious rewards appointed for Tyrannicides.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. v. 132 They..erect Statues in their Temples to the Honour of Tyrannicides.

1700 J. Toland in J. Harrington Oceana Pref. p. ix Cremutius Cordus, who was condemn'd by that Monster Tiberius for speaking honorably of the immortal Tyrannicides Brutus and Cassius.

1809 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 227 [Debry] proposed the formation of a corps of Tyrannicides.

1832 T. Carlyle Boswell's Johnson in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) IV. 77 The English Nation had rebelled against a Tyrant; and, by the hands of religious tyrannicides, exacted stern vengeance of him.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xv. 344 Memories of..Brutus, and other exalted tyrannicides, exalted his imagination.

1904 Sat. Rev. 30 July 144 The exact amount of blood-money received by each of the ‘patriots’, who posed as tyrannicides.

1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 165 Tyrannicide, that is, the killing of a Tyrant, not onely Lawful, but also Laudable.

1751 D. Hume Enq. Princ. Morals ii. iii. 29 Tyrannicide or the Assassination of Usurpers and oppressive Princes was highly prais'd in antient Times.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 93 It was in the most patient period of Roman servitude that themes of tyrannicide made the ordinary exercise of boys at school. View more context for this quotation

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) i. xv. 212 It is difficult to conceive a case in which a good man would attempt tyrannicide.

1864 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxxi, in Monthly Packet Aug. 135 Julian the Apostate is the first instance of tyrannicide that is adduced.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets iii. 87 Theognis in one place actually advises tyrannicide.