单词 | hara-kiri |
释义 | hara-kirin. Suicide by disembowelment, as formerly practised by the samurai of Japan, when in circumstances of disgrace, or under sentence of death. Also sometimes called happy dispatch (see dispatch n. 4) and seppuku n. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] > types of sati1806 satiism1828 hara-kiri1856 junshi1871 seppuku1871 ritual suicide1903 murder-suicide1904 autocide1923 mass suicide1937 doctor-assisted suicide1975 self-deliverance1975 self-deliveration1975 assisted suicide1976 suicide by cop1986 bullycide2001 1856 Harper's Mag. Mar. 460 (title) Hari-kari of Japan. 1859 Times 18 Aug. 10 These officers no longer perform hari-kari, or in other words disembowel themselves, rather than survive the disgrace of admitting foreigners. 1862 O. W. Holmes Hunt after Captain in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 58 He will very commonly consent to the thing asked, were it to commit hari-kari. 1871 A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan II. 195 The ceremony of hara-kiri was added afterwards in the case of persons belonging to the military class being condemned to death. 1888 Sc. Leader 17 Mar. 4 The Liberal Unionist party..will hesitate long before committing ‘hari-kari’ in that fashion. 1888 J. L. Atkinson in Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 7 June Hara-kiri, the Japanese method of self-destruction in the baronial days, was practiced only by the Samurai, who were the two-sworded retainers of the barons or Daimiyos..Hari-kiri is rarely if ever heard of as being done in Japan nowadays. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1856 |
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