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self-ˈkilled, pa. pple.
[self- 2.]
Killed by one's own hand; self-destroyed.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. vi. 4 Treasure thou some place, With beauties treasure ere it be selfe kil'd. 1671Milton Samson 1664 And now ly'st victorious Among thy slain self-kill'd.
So self-ˈkiller, a suicide; self-ˈkilling, self-murder, suicide.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot 37 No relicks of traitors to their country, *self-killers or sacrilegious malefactors.
1618Bolton Florus (1636) To Rdr., Heathen, with whom..*self-killing, to avoyd disgrace, seemed an high point of true magnanimity. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1729) I. 149 In those Times Self-killing was not rare. |