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suicidal, a.|s(j)uːɪˈsaɪdəl|
[f. suicide n.2 + -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or involving suicide or self-slaughter; (of persons) having a tendency to suicide.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. iii. iv, With such weapons, homicidal and suicidal. 1849J. W. Warter Southey's Comm.-pl. Bk. 252 A Suicidal Maniac through Religious Melancholy. 1855Dunglison Med. Lex., Suicidal Insanity. 1886Fagge Princ. Med. I. 741 Patients affected with this form of melancholia show suicidal tendencies.
2. fig. Leading to or involving self-destruction; destructive or fatal to those engaged.
1777Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 529 'Tis only..misapplying men to employ them in a suicidal parade against New York. 1804Ann. Rev. II. 234 The Rockingham administration, in every thing a suicidal party, had set aside this right. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xx, The Spaniards, by some suicidal pedantry, had allowed their navy to be crippled. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 35 Though victory makes men insolent and is often suicidal to the victors, education is never suicidal.
Hence suiˈcidalism = suicidism; suiˈcidally adv., in a suicidal manner; so as to bring destruction or ruin on the actor; suiˈcidalwise adv., suicidally.
1833Lytton England i. iii. 48 This gaiety of *suicidalism is not the death à la mode with us.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. i. vii, A Soldiery, which we saw long since fallen all *suicidally out of square. 1841Emerson Misc. (1855) 245 Whatever they attempt..reacts suicidally on the actor himself. 1891Times 21 Dec. 9/4 To reside in Italy meant to run almost suicidally the risk of a malarial attack.
1859W. Anderson Disc. Ser. ii. (1860) 73 You..will not permit its aspirations to have scope and expression; but *suicidalwise, suffocate them. |