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• n  someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
• n  the act of killing a king

• The Greeks imagined a king who killed his father and married his mother, and Shakespeare could hardly write a tragedy without a regicide angle.
• Since Europe's last regicide, of Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1918, deposed sovereigns have suffered only the relatively painless fate of exile, house hunting and finding .
• Russian Orthodox Church was torn in two by revolution and regicide, by the enmity between communism and capitalism, nearly a century of fulmination and hatred.

News & Articles

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• Touring Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls Online
  It was a productive afternoon: I rescued a pig, solved a murder, and foiled a regicide—not bad for a sell-sword who's 90 years-young. At this year's E3 I scored some time with a beta build of Bethesda's new MMORPG, The Elder Scrolls Online. I explored the lands of Tamriel as a decrepit mercenary, bent on stealing anything and everything that wasn't bolted down. After a brief crash course on the ...
  June 12, 2013 - PC World

Quotes

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• Alan Johnson in Telegraph.co.uk
  Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said: "I don't agree that regicide gives you a united party - quite the opposite. I think Gordon Brown is the best man for the job."
• Graham Stringer in Independent
  Graham Stringer, the Manchester Blackley MP, told Sky News there was "no real tradition of regicide" within the party.