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▪ I. homicide, n.1|ˈhɒmɪsaɪd|
[a. F. homicide (12th c.), ad. L. homicīda, f. shortened stem of homo, homini-s man + cædĕre, -cīdĕre to kill: see -cide 1.]
One who kills a human being; a man-slayer; in earlier use often = murderer.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Mathou 563 Of dauit, homycyde & auster bath. 1421–2Hoccleve Dialog 64 Had I be for an homysede yknowe, or an extorcioner or a robbowr. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 25 Salisbury is a desperate Homicide, He fighteth as one weary of his life. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry v. ii, I have lost a son,..I require his blood From his accursed homicide. 1791Cowper Iliad v. 38 Gore-tainted homicide, town-battering Mars! 1821Byron Sardan. iv. i. 180 And her, the homicide and husband-killer.
fig.1635[Glapthorne] Lady Mother v. i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 184 O, dispaire, Grimme homicide of soules.
†b. self-homicide, a suicide. Obs.
1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 212 So that for the Parliament to seek to take from him such Authority, were to be felo de se, as we call a self-Homicide.
c. attrib. Man-killing, homicidal.
1382Wyclif Acts iii. 14 Ȝe..axiden a man homeside, or mansleer, for to be ȝouun to ȝou. 1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 119 This regicide and homicide Government. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 94 Their unholy and homicide alliance.
▪ II. ˈhomicide, n.2
[a. F. homicide (12th c.), ad. L. homicīdium: see prec. and -cide 2.]
The action, by a human being, of killing a human being.
In Law, usually classed as justifiable, excusable, or felonious. justifiable homicide, the killing of a man in obedience to law, or by unavoidable necessity, or for the prevention of an atrocious crime. excusable homicide, homicide committed by misadventure, also in cases of self-defence, where the assailant did not originally intend murder, rape, or robbery: but the distinction between justifiable and excusable homicide is merely verbal in modern Eng. law. felonious homicide comprehends the wilful killing of a man through malice aforethought (murder); the unlawful killing of a man without such malice, either in a sudden heat, or involuntarily while committing an unlawful action not amounting to felony (manslaughter, in Scots Law called culpable homicide); also, the destroying of one's own life, self-murder, suicide. The degrees of culpable homicide have been defined by statute in divers colonial and American jurisdictions, as part of a systematic criminal code or otherwise. See manslaughter, murder.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋498 Another homycide is that is doon for necessitee as whan o man sleeth another in his defendaunt. 1484Caxton Fables Alfonce (1889) 1 This man dyd not the homycyde. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxvi. 58 Lord God, deliuer me, and gyd Frome schedding blude, and homicyd. a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 90 It [suicide] is not onely Homicide, but Murder. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 179 In some cases homicide is justifiable, rather by the permission, than by the absolute command of the law. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 44 [He] is acquitted of murder—the act was manslaughter only, or it was justifiable homicide. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Race Wks. (Bohn) II. 26 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main..But they have a singular turn for homicide.
†b. self-homicide, self-murder, suicide. Obs.
a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 26 Of such condition is this Self-Homicide. 1650Vind. Hammond's Addr. §32. 12 Self-homicide is evill, and forbidden by God.
▪ III. ˈhomicide, v.
(Also pa. pple. in 5 homycied.)
[f. homicide n.2]
trans. To kill or murder.
c1470Harding Chron. lxxxi. v, That place..Wher that gyaunt and she were homycied. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. xi, Her ancestor was Husband to an Aunt of that homicided Duke. |