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self-ˈmurder, n.
[self- 1 a.]
The taking of one's own life; self-destruction; suicide.
1563–83Foxe A. & M. 2114/1 The wilfull and selfe murder of Pauyer, of Richard Long,..besides infinite other. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 282 Where Iudas hanged him-selfe..there is a vault erected..in memory of his selfe murther. a1715Burnet Own Time iii. (1724) I. 553 He [Lord Essex] was found dead; his throat cut... The Coroners Jury found it self-murder. 1741Richardson Pamela (1785) IV. 68 In such a gloomy, saturnine Nation as ours, where Self-murders are more frequent than in all the Christian World besides. 1843Macaulay Ess. Addison (1865) II. 338 The disciple [Budgell]..closed a wicked and unhappy life by selfmurder. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin xii, To save me from dying of self-murder or of a broken heart.
transf.a1631Donne Div. Poems, Letanie i. Wks. (Grosart) II. 298 My hart is by dejection clay, And by selfe-murder redd. 1710Steele Tatler No. 251 ⁋2 We should think it the most unnatural Sort of Self-Murther to sacrifice the Sentiment of the Soul to gratify the Appetites of the Body. 1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 15 (1726) I. 76 When a whole civil society.. destroys itself, it is civil self-murder.
So † self-ˈmurder v., -ˈmurdered pa. pple., -ˈmurdering ppl. a.
1648Gage West Ind. 153 Some have died under their own whipping, and have *selfe murthered themselves.
1716Oldmixon in Ovid's Ep. 180 My dear Mother there *Self⁓murder'd lyes. 1725Pope Odyss. xi. 337 The wife self⁓murder'd from a beam depends.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. x. 57 Through long anguish, and *selfe-murdring thought. 1692W. Marshall Gosp. Myst. Sanct. x. (1764) 166 The wicked, persecuting, self-murdering jailor [Acts xvi. 27]. |