单词 | self-murdered |
释义 | self-murderedadj. Now somewhat rare. That has committed suicide.Usually with condemnatory force. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [adjective] > having committed suicide self-slaughtered1594 self-murdered1598 self-killed1609 self-slain1615 self-immolated1799 suicided1841 1598 L. A. tr. M. Martínez Seuenth Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood i. sig. B The inchaunted Portrature of selfe murthered Brutus [Sp. las armas del infeliz Bruto]. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 337 The wife self-murder'd from a beam depends. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. ix. 455 Not fallen indeed, by the profane hand of daring suicide, but equally self-murdered through wilful self-neglect. 1882 Canad. Monthly & National Rev. Apr. 394/1 The dead body of the self-murdered Eurydice. 1910 J. H. Milbank Florence Gardiner Sings 6 She fell over a self-murdered employer, in returning to her kitchen after a Sunday afternoon walk. 1994 J. Ramazani Poetry of Mourning 247 To annihilate his self-murdered father once and for all would be an act of self-annihilation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598 |
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