TYRANNICIDE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Tyrannicide

... Cyril Tourneur, the most perfect and most terrible incarnation of the idea of retribution impersonate and concentrated revenge that ever haunted the dreams of a tragic poet or the vigils of a future tyrannicide, is resumed and embodied in a figure as original and as impossible to forget, for any one who has ever felt the savage fascination of its presence, as any of the humaner figures evoked and immortalized by Shakespeare. The rage of Swift, without ...

— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... itself of Paris, the tribunal of justice, heard the harangues of the duke's advocate in defence of assassination, which he termed tyrannicide; and that assembly, partly influenced by faction, partly overawed by power, pronounced no sentence of condemnation ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume