Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
someone who commits regicide;
the killer of a king;
2.
the act of killing a king;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Regicide \Reg"i*cide\ (r[e^]j"[i^]*s[imac]d), n. [F.
r['e]gicide; L. rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Cf.
Homicide.]
1. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.
Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to
death.
[1913 Webster]
2. The killing or the murder of a king.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
regicide
n 1: someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
2: the act of killing a king
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "regicide":
aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide,
homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide,
parricide, patricide, pesticide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide,
uxoricide, vermicide
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
REGICIDE. The killing of a king, and, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des
Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300.