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self-ˈmurderer
[self- 1 c.]
One who commits self-murder, a suicide, felo de se.
The OE. words were selfbana, selfmyrþra.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 92 He is bound in conscience to steal, and were, in some opinions,..a selfe-murderer if he stole not. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xv. §144 His Body was..buried..with a Stake driven through him, as is usual in the Case of Self Murtherers. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 189 The same argument would prove every other criminal non compos, as well as the self-murderer. 1865M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper xviii, You would be sorry that one more self-murderer had gone red-handed to his doom. |