Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Regicide

Regicide (rej"i*sīd) , noun

[French régicide; Latin rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Compare Homicide.]

1.
(Eng. Hist.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
2.
The killing or the murder of a king.