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reg·i·cide
/ ˈrejəˌsīd/
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n.
the action of killing a king.
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a person who kills or takes part in killing a king.
DERIVATIVES:
reg·i·cid·al
/ ˌrejəˈsīdl/ adj.
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The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Regicides and the Execution...Charles, a reluctant regicide, and a firm monarchist...the motives of the regicides. Scott focuses on the eight regicides from the north of...group for whom the regicide went too far, Presbyterian...
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Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...mode for combining the tragedy of the regicide with the comic ending of restoration...usurpation, tyranny, rebellion, and regicide. Dryden's The Indian Emperour, Tyrannick...account of literary and cultural change, Regicide and Restoration revitalizes the drama...
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Jason Peacey, ed. The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...essays offers a timely reassessment of the regicide. As the editor points out, there has...the motivation of a group of northern regicides emphasizes the Scottish dimension. What...Charles and monarchy, but opposed the regicide and ended up apparently supporting some...
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The king is dead, long live the crown: on the anniversary of the regicide, Blair Worden considers the enduring and sometimes surprising consequences of the execution of Charles I.
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...lasting the condemnation of the regicide would be. Charles's death...and character. How had the regicide come about? The MPs who went...trial of the king. Yet the regicide was a huge risk. Not only...take the king's place. The regicides of 1649 had none. What were...
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Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er aout 1589.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Nicolas Le Roux. Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er aout 1589. Les...assassination seven months later resulted in a crisis of legitimacy--a "regicide symbolique" (161)--and a reconfiguration of monarchical institutions...
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Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...try to describe Barrell's new book. Framed by the actual regicide of Louis in France and the sedition trials in Edinburgh in...example the obvious psychoanalytic richness of the ever-present regicide theme, but he leaves these interpretive opportunities for...
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Brown will not go quietly, but the air is thick with plots of regicide
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...thick with rumours of backbench and cabinet-level plots of regicide, as what some have called the "Shakespearean tragedy" of...some thinking time. But they could well mount an attempt at regicide when they return, possibly even before the Labour conference...
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Regicide in Bucharest; Reflections on the revolution in Romania.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/29/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...breaking a window. Nonetheless, it does not bode well for Romania's future that it should start its road to democracy this way. Revolutions that cannot resist regicide-the French and the Russian come to mind-have a way of ending badly.
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Manhattan regicide. (the Leona Helmsley tax fraud trial) (American Survey)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/1/1989; 700+ words
; Manhattan regicide THAT Mrs Leona Helmsley had drunk from a plastic cup and eaten off a plastic plate in the cafeteria of the Manhattan federal courthouse...
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US contemplates act of regicide
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/12/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...before them as awesome and traum-atic, they speak for the great mass of middle America. They know they are contemplating regicide. This is why it is still not inconceivable that the president may survive, and why for many Americans he deserves to survive...
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regicide
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
regicide any of those who took part in the trial and execution of Charles I; after the Restoration , several of the regicides were tried and executed, and the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and others were dug up, drawn on a hurdle to Tyburn, displayed...
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regicides
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
regicides [Lat., =king-killers], in English history, name given to those judges and court officers...Bibliography: See C. V. Wedgwood, A Coffin for King Charles (1964); N. H. Mayfield, Puritans and Regicide (1988).
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Letters on a Regicide Peace
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Letters on a Regicide Peace, see Regicide Peace .
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Regicide Peace, Letters on a
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Regicide Peace, Letters on a, by E. Burke , the first two published 1796, the third 1797, the fourth posthumously in the collected...
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Tobias George Smollett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...have his first play, an ill-starred tragedy entitled The Regicide, produced. Of the occasional odes that Smollett published...second abortive dramatic piece entitled Alceste. After The Regicide had been published in 1749, the cantankerous Smollett, in...
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