单词 | felo-de-se |
释义 | felo-de-sen. 1. a. One who ‘deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or commits any unlawful malicious act, the consequence of which is his own death’ (Blackstone). 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 c1250 Bracton iii. ii. xxxi Eodem modo quo quis feloniam facere possit interficiendo alium, ita feloniam facere possit interficiendo seipsum, quæ quidem felonia dicitur fieri de seipso.] 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 124 He that murders himself, is by us tearmed Felo de se. 1689 E. Hickeringill Speech Without-doors iv. 30 How desperately they stabb themselves, and are Felones de se. 1814 Ld. Byron in T. Moore Life Ld. Byron (1851) 255/1 (Note) That ‘felo de se’ who..Walk'd out of his depth and was lost in a calm sea. 1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life I. 85 Dick..pronounced him..to be, in fact, felo de se. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > self-destruction self-murdera1631 felon-de-se1648 felo-de-se1678 self-destructiveness1733 self-combustion1837 auto-destruction1888 self-liquidation1928 self-destruct1962 auto-destruct1968 1678 Lively Orac. iii. 40 Making their Natures a kind of felo de se to prompt the destroying itself. 1704 E. Ward Dissenting Hypocrite 34 That Church is Moderate and Easy T' excess, which would be Felo de se. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiv. 287 That Protestants..should be..such Felos de se, I cannot believe it. View more context for this quotation 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 31 This modus is felo de se and destroys itself. 1840 T. De Quincey Style in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 4/1 A man..would be a madman and a felo-de-se, as respected his reliance upon that doctrine. c. In etymological nonce-use (see quot. 1670). ΚΠ 1670 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 198 He is literally felo de se, who deprives and robs himself of that which no body but himself can rob him of. 2. A case to which the verdict ‘felo de se’ is appropriate; self-murder, suicide. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] self-violence1532 self-slaughter1533 self-murder1570 self-destruction1572 self-death1583 self-killinga1586 self-homicide?1608 self-destroying1612 self-blood1621 suicide1643 autoctony1652 selfcide1692 suicism1751 suicidism1756 felo-de-se1771 felony-de-se1822 suicidalism1833 1771 E. Long Trial of Carter's Dog in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 205 Your worships should..incline to deem it a felo de se. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 185 Werther, who brought felo-de-se quite into vogue. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 45 The ‘crowner's quest’ had pronounced the wretched creature guilty of felo-de-se. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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