单词 | self-murderer |
释义 | self-murderern. A person who commits suicide.Usually with condemnatory force. In later use also in historical contexts with reference to suicide as a criminal act. Cf. suicide n.2 1, felo-de-se n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > person who commits suicide > [noun] self-slayera1500 self-murderer1606 self-killer1624 autocide1635 self-destroyera1646 felon-de-se1648 felo-de-se1651 suicide1658 self-homicide1681 suicidist1814 suicider1841 1606 R. Allen Doctr. Gospel ii. 458 Such as shall be found like selfe-murderers, guiltie of their own blood. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. iii. §1 He is bound in conscience to steale, and were, in some opinions,..a Selfe-murderer if he stole not. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 504 His Body was..buried..with a Stake driven through him, as is usual in the Case of self Murtherers. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 189 The same argument would prove every other criminal non compos, as well as the self-murderer. 1802 Port Folio 18 Dec. 396/3 A person, in the full possession of his mental powers, may, by the pressure of misfortune, become a self-murderer. 1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper xviii. 153 You would be sorry that one more self-murderer had gone red-handed to his doom. 1964 London Mag. Mar. 50 Pitiful creatures, the self-murderers, the morally infirm. 2006 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 30 Oct. 8 If the deceased was convicted as a self-murderer,..their heirs would have been subjected to punitive sanctions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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