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单词 felo-de-se
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felo-de-sen.

/ˌfɛləʊ diː ˈsiː/
Forms: Plural felones-, felos-de-se.
Etymology: Anglo-Latin felō felon n.1 + dē sē of himself.
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.
attributive.1826 Edinb. Rev. 45 171 This felo de se system.
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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