Definition of regicide in English:

regicide

noun ˈrɛdʒɪsʌɪdˈrɛdʒəˌsaɪd

mass noun

1The action of killing a king.
Example sentencesExamples
- But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship.
- So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston.
- Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule.
- Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades.
- A 5th Century AD dynastic drama was played out here, centred on a usurper of the throne named Kasyapa - the tale of regicide and revenge is equal to anything in Shakespeare.
- Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.
- Brand Donnian a traitor, charge him with regicide.
- Yes, yes, regicide was often accompanied by such atrocities, but this was the 20th century.
- Enlarged by many newly readmitted members who had held aloof from the act of regicide, it settled into a more prolonged and conservative regime than the army had ever envisaged.
- As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide.
- The 55th anniversary of one such regicide passed three days ago.
- Valuable though such essays are, one might again quibble with a selection lacking analyses of the impact of radicalism on the political process at Westminster or the politics of regicide and republicanism.
- In the hands of the Protestant exiles in the 1550s, conciliarism mutated into forms of resistance theory which justified regicide or the deposition of kings.
- There was an immediate clampdown on any subject that smacked of regicide and the San Carlo attempted to foist on Verdi its own re-write of the libretto.
- In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted.
- Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists.
- It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another.
- In the later years of the correspondence, there was another major factor: his younger brother was arrested in 1928 for attempted regicide.
- His most influential interpreter, Mencius, carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide.
- Part of me aches to see all Royals beheaded, and I recommend regicide as a fitting career path for my students.
1. 1.1count noun A person who kills or takes part in killing a king.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses.
  Some of the regicides - those who signed the death warrant - were executed after the Restoration, but the king's death marked a turning point, the end of the doctrine of divine right.
  Not surprisingly, then, former members of the Convention did much better than in the previous year: 162 were elected, 71 of them regicides.
  By killing the king the regicides made any future compromise impossible; they committed treason and their lives were forfeit.
  The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word.
  These differences came to a head when a would-be regicide appealed for assistance from the society.
  The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime.
  Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide?
  Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides.
  Gradually the rage against the Puritan regicides passed.
  When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides (the murderer of a king) and executed.
  Sir Purbeck Temple, testifying against the regicides in 1660, alleged that ‘the people cried out: ‘What, do you carry the King in a common Sedan, as they carry such as have the Plague?’’
  He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant.
  In absolutist France, for instance, criminals were publicly tortured and executed, and the book begins with a detailed and thoroughly gruesome account of the punishment of a regicide in 1757.
  She was foreign-born and a regicide, having got rid of her weak-minded husband Peter III.
  In the fall of 1861, the Richmond Dispatch launched an assault on the American Tract Society for issuing Oliver Cromwell's Bible for the use of Yankee troops, condemning the implicit sanction given to ‘the whole crowd of pious regicides.’
  There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it.
  Synonyms
  killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre

Derivatives

regicidal

adjective rɛdʒɪˈsʌɪd(ə)lˌrɛdʒəˈsaɪdl

Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide?
Example sentencesExamples
- His head was displayed on a pike near Westminster Hall, the scene (according to taste) of either his greatest triumph or his most monstrous regicidal crime.
- No less disturbing was the loss of public esteem for the king, who became the butt of popular insults, placards, and graffiti - some of it regicidal in tone.
- To have convicted Crosfeild for singing a regicidal song would have been unjust and even preposterous, so that at least legally there has to be some kind of aesthetic dispensation, aesthetic free space for strong expressions.
- The plot of the novel is told in two threads, one where the protagonist is a Doctor in the service of a King and the other where the hero is a bodyguard to a regicidal Protector General.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin rex, reg- 'king' + -cide, probably suggested by French régicide.

Definition of regicide in US English:

regicide

nounˈrɛdʒəˌsaɪdˈrejəˌsīd

1The action of killing a king.
Example sentencesExamples
- His most influential interpreter, Mencius, carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide.
- Part of me aches to see all Royals beheaded, and I recommend regicide as a fitting career path for my students.
- A 5th Century AD dynastic drama was played out here, centred on a usurper of the throne named Kasyapa - the tale of regicide and revenge is equal to anything in Shakespeare.
- Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule.
- Brand Donnian a traitor, charge him with regicide.
- In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted.
- The 55th anniversary of one such regicide passed three days ago.
- As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide.
- But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship.
- In the hands of the Protestant exiles in the 1550s, conciliarism mutated into forms of resistance theory which justified regicide or the deposition of kings.
- Valuable though such essays are, one might again quibble with a selection lacking analyses of the impact of radicalism on the political process at Westminster or the politics of regicide and republicanism.
- So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston.
- There was an immediate clampdown on any subject that smacked of regicide and the San Carlo attempted to foist on Verdi its own re-write of the libretto.
- Yes, yes, regicide was often accompanied by such atrocities, but this was the 20th century.
- Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.
- In the later years of the correspondence, there was another major factor: his younger brother was arrested in 1928 for attempted regicide.
- Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades.
- Enlarged by many newly readmitted members who had held aloof from the act of regicide, it settled into a more prolonged and conservative regime than the army had ever envisaged.
- Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists.
- It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another.
1. 1.1 A person who kills or takes part in killing a king.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sir Purbeck Temple, testifying against the regicides in 1660, alleged that ‘the people cried out: ‘What, do you carry the King in a common Sedan, as they carry such as have the Plague?’’
  In the fall of 1861, the Richmond Dispatch launched an assault on the American Tract Society for issuing Oliver Cromwell's Bible for the use of Yankee troops, condemning the implicit sanction given to ‘the whole crowd of pious regicides.’
  These differences came to a head when a would-be regicide appealed for assistance from the society.
  The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word.
  He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant.
  She was foreign-born and a regicide, having got rid of her weak-minded husband Peter III.
  There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it.
  The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime.
  Not surprisingly, then, former members of the Convention did much better than in the previous year: 162 were elected, 71 of them regicides.
  When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides (the murderer of a king) and executed.
  Some of the regicides - those who signed the death warrant - were executed after the Restoration, but the king's death marked a turning point, the end of the doctrine of divine right.
  By killing the king the regicides made any future compromise impossible; they committed treason and their lives were forfeit.
  In absolutist France, for instance, criminals were publicly tortured and executed, and the book begins with a detailed and thoroughly gruesome account of the punishment of a regicide in 1757.
  Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides.
  Gradually the rage against the Puritan regicides passed.
  Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide?
  Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses.
  Synonyms
  killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin rex, reg- ‘king’ + -cide, probably suggested by French régicide.

单词	regicide
释义	Definition of regicide in English: regicide noun ˈrɛdʒɪsʌɪdˈrɛdʒəˌsaɪd mass noun 1The action of killing a king. Example sentencesExamples But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship. So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston. Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule. Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. A 5th Century AD dynastic drama was played out here, centred on a usurper of the throne named Kasyapa - the tale of regicide and revenge is equal to anything in Shakespeare. Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed. Brand Donnian a traitor, charge him with regicide. Yes, yes, regicide was often accompanied by such atrocities, but this was the 20th century. Enlarged by many newly readmitted members who had held aloof from the act of regicide, it settled into a more prolonged and conservative regime than the army had ever envisaged. As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide. The 55th anniversary of one such regicide passed three days ago. Valuable though such essays are, one might again quibble with a selection lacking analyses of the impact of radicalism on the political process at Westminster or the politics of regicide and republicanism. In the hands of the Protestant exiles in the 1550s, conciliarism mutated into forms of resistance theory which justified regicide or the deposition of kings. There was an immediate clampdown on any subject that smacked of regicide and the San Carlo attempted to foist on Verdi its own re-write of the libretto. In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted. Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists. It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another. In the later years of the correspondence, there was another major factor: his younger brother was arrested in 1928 for attempted regicide. His most influential interpreter, Mencius, carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide. Part of me aches to see all Royals beheaded, and I recommend regicide as a fitting career path for my students. 1.1count noun A person who kills or takes part in killing a king. Example sentencesExamples Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses. Some of the regicides - those who signed the death warrant - were executed after the Restoration, but the king's death marked a turning point, the end of the doctrine of divine right. Not surprisingly, then, former members of the Convention did much better than in the previous year: 162 were elected, 71 of them regicides. By killing the king the regicides made any future compromise impossible; they committed treason and their lives were forfeit. The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word. These differences came to a head when a would-be regicide appealed for assistance from the society. The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime. Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide? Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides. Gradually the rage against the Puritan regicides passed. When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides (the murderer of a king) and executed. Sir Purbeck Temple, testifying against the regicides in 1660, alleged that ‘the people cried out: ‘What, do you carry the King in a common Sedan, as they carry such as have the Plague?’’ He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant. In absolutist France, for instance, criminals were publicly tortured and executed, and the book begins with a detailed and thoroughly gruesome account of the punishment of a regicide in 1757. She was foreign-born and a regicide, having got rid of her weak-minded husband Peter III. In the fall of 1861, the Richmond Dispatch launched an assault on the American Tract Society for issuing Oliver Cromwell's Bible for the use of Yankee troops, condemning the implicit sanction given to ‘the whole crowd of pious regicides.’ There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it. Synonyms killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre Derivatives regicidal adjective rɛdʒɪˈsʌɪd(ə)lˌrɛdʒəˈsaɪdl Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide? Example sentencesExamples His head was displayed on a pike near Westminster Hall, the scene (according to taste) of either his greatest triumph or his most monstrous regicidal crime. No less disturbing was the loss of public esteem for the king, who became the butt of popular insults, placards, and graffiti - some of it regicidal in tone. To have convicted Crosfeild for singing a regicidal song would have been unjust and even preposterous, so that at least legally there has to be some kind of aesthetic dispensation, aesthetic free space for strong expressions. The plot of the novel is told in two threads, one where the protagonist is a Doctor in the service of a King and the other where the hero is a bodyguard to a regicidal Protector General. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin rex, reg- 'king' + -cide, probably suggested by French régicide. Definition of regicide in US English: regicide nounˈrɛdʒəˌsaɪdˈrejəˌsīd 1The action of killing a king. Example sentencesExamples His most influential interpreter, Mencius, carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide. Part of me aches to see all Royals beheaded, and I recommend regicide as a fitting career path for my students. A 5th Century AD dynastic drama was played out here, centred on a usurper of the throne named Kasyapa - the tale of regicide and revenge is equal to anything in Shakespeare. Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule. Brand Donnian a traitor, charge him with regicide. In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted. The 55th anniversary of one such regicide passed three days ago. As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide. But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship. In the hands of the Protestant exiles in the 1550s, conciliarism mutated into forms of resistance theory which justified regicide or the deposition of kings. Valuable though such essays are, one might again quibble with a selection lacking analyses of the impact of radicalism on the political process at Westminster or the politics of regicide and republicanism. So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston. There was an immediate clampdown on any subject that smacked of regicide and the San Carlo attempted to foist on Verdi its own re-write of the libretto. Yes, yes, regicide was often accompanied by such atrocities, but this was the 20th century. Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed. In the later years of the correspondence, there was another major factor: his younger brother was arrested in 1928 for attempted regicide. Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. Enlarged by many newly readmitted members who had held aloof from the act of regicide, it settled into a more prolonged and conservative regime than the army had ever envisaged. Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists. It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another. 1.1 A person who kills or takes part in killing a king. Example sentencesExamples Sir Purbeck Temple, testifying against the regicides in 1660, alleged that ‘the people cried out: ‘What, do you carry the King in a common Sedan, as they carry such as have the Plague?’’ In the fall of 1861, the Richmond Dispatch launched an assault on the American Tract Society for issuing Oliver Cromwell's Bible for the use of Yankee troops, condemning the implicit sanction given to ‘the whole crowd of pious regicides.’ These differences came to a head when a would-be regicide appealed for assistance from the society. The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word. He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant. She was foreign-born and a regicide, having got rid of her weak-minded husband Peter III. There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it. The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime. Not surprisingly, then, former members of the Convention did much better than in the previous year: 162 were elected, 71 of them regicides. When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides (the murderer of a king) and executed. Some of the regicides - those who signed the death warrant - were executed after the Restoration, but the king's death marked a turning point, the end of the doctrine of divine right. By killing the king the regicides made any future compromise impossible; they committed treason and their lives were forfeit. In absolutist France, for instance, criminals were publicly tortured and executed, and the book begins with a detailed and thoroughly gruesome account of the punishment of a regicide in 1757. Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides. Gradually the rage against the Puritan regicides passed. Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide? Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses. Synonyms killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin rex, reg- ‘king’ + -cide, probably suggested by French régicide.
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