principicide

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The killing of a prince.

   • The Roumanians hold the world record for principicide, or the assassination of princes, with Serbia—whose record in this regard is not to be despised, either—a bad second.
   • Both of these stories, that he was exiled or placed in terror of his life, belong to a recognized genre invented to justify the principicide and yet continue the imperial system.
   • It was a terrible, but all too excusable crime, principicide.
2. 2

   One who kills a prince.

   • The law has been vindicated, and the outraged feelings of the people of these colonies have been avenged by the execution this morning of the wretched man—the would-be principicide [Henry O’Farrell].
   • As it was not the ‘bullet,’ or the ‘pistol,’ or the ‘powder,’ that animated the would-be Principicide, so it is not the ‘consumptuous dinner’—not the fish, flesh, fowl, and good plum-pudding, that tends to increase the appetite for them.
   • The chances of immediate escape for a principicide must be taken as very small.

The neighborhood

• neighborprince
• neighborprinceps