reginacide

One who kills a queen.

However, my old enemy, Miss [Edith] Sitwell, is now enthroned. I was not at the coronation, I am not among her subjects. But I have no inclination left to be a reginacide or even a jeering republican.

Another report connects the incident with the trial of the would-be reginacide John Somervyle (1 Anderson 106).

The killing of a queen (female monarch or wife of a king).

[A sketch of Edward Oxford’s attempted assassination of Queen Victoria.]

It is related that once upon a time in a small room of a large house three little girls were seated. They were pretty, they were poor, and they were princesses. Before them stood a fat man with a white beard. […] To the first he said: You will be a duchess and be burned to death. To the second: You will be a queen and fly for your life. To the third: You will be an empress and go mad on your throne. […] In any event, though the astrologer may have foreseen regalias, he could not foretell the reginacide.

The killing of a queen (reproductive female insect).

But the wasps make no such migration. The males and the old queens and workers all die when the autumn frosts set in, while the young queens, which have yet to lay their eggs, hie away to find protection in some quiet nook, where they remain until the first bright days of spring. It is then that they sally forth in search of a suitable place to commence their nests, and frequently fall victims to some one who destroys them as depredators of fruit and progenitors of countless enemies of humanity. Should any of my hearers ever be induced to commit such a regicide, or rather reginacide, I beg they will remember that the insect itself and its offspring, if allowed to survive, would remove from both field and garden incalculable numbers of small caterpillars and other larvæ which are so harmful to vegetation.

How can I “sprinkle peppermint on the bees” between the frames of the hive? I suppose I am to move them all from their places in order to do it, and I must also more them in order to find the queen and commit reginacide.