tyrannicide
- n killing a tyrant
- The main flaw in the tyrannicide argument these days, of course, is that the current brand of murder-by-government has nothing to do with tyrannicide.
- Americans who are squeamish about political assassinations may be surprised to learn that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet.
- Though a natural target for tyrannicide, Charles IX died of tuberculosis at the age of 23; but his brother Henry III, who was responsible for a couple of assassinations of his .