Definitions for regicide

regicide reg·i·cide

Spelling: [rej-uh-sahyd]
IPA: /ˈrɛdʒ əˌsaɪd/

Regicide is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in regicide (cdeegiir).

Definitions for regicide

noun

  1. the killing of a king.
  2. a person who kills a king or is responsible for his death, especially one of the judges who condemned Charles I of England to death.

Origin of regicide

1540-50; Latin rēg-, stem of rēx king + -i- + -cide

Examples for regicide

Was it really revolution and regicide which Rossi contemplated?

She clung to her regicide purpose with the tenacity of a tigress.

Musolino was a brigand, and Luccheni an anarchist and regicide.

But of regicide for this reason no proof is afforded, as far as I can see.

Michael, you have the right to draw first; you are a regicide.

Other examples are given in which every regicide might become king, if he could, like Macbeth.

Was it an accident where so many were inexperienced in arms or an attempt at regicide?

None but the village preacher knew that it was Goffe, the regicide.

Much harm had also been done by Mariana's alleged doctrine on regicide.

In the first place, the merits of The regicide are of the scantiest.

Word Value for regicide
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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