单词 | self-murder |
释义 | self-murdern. 1. The action or an act of taking one's own life; suicide.Usually with condemnatory force. In later use also in historical contexts with reference to suicide as a criminal act. Cf. suicide n.1 1. 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 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2300/2 The wilful and self murder, of Pauyer, of Richard Longe,..besides infinite other. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 282 Where Iudas hanged him-selfe..there is a vault erected..in memory of his selfe murther. 1654 E. Leigh Syst. Divinity ix. vii. 838 Self-murder is a great sinne, and a manifest breaking of this Commandment. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 553 He [sc. Lord Essex] was found dead; his throat cut... The Coroners Jury found it self-murder. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xiv. 95 In such a gloomy, saturnine Nation as ours, where Self-murders are more frequent, than in all the Christian World besides. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Addison in Edinb. Rev. July 118/2 The disciple [sc. Budgell]..closed a wicked and unhappy life by self-murder. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin xii. 110 To save me from dying of self-murder or of a broken heart. 1959 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 6 June 10/4 He thinks it is impossible for one man to drive another to self-murder. 1999 R. Horrox in P.C. Jupp & C. Gittings Death in Eng. iv. 98 The confiscation of a suicide's possessions to the Crown does carry the implication that self-murder..was a sort of superfelony. 2. In extended use: the action or an act of causing serious harm to oneself, one's country, etc.; self-destruction. 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 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 172 My heart is by dejection, clay, And by selfe-murder, red. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 251. ⁋2 We should think it the most unnatural Sort of Self-Murther to sacrifice the Sentiment of the Soul to gratify the Appetites of the Body. 1792 Ten Minutes Refl. on Late Events in France 12 What apology could we find for ourselves, if we should be seduced by those tempters to commit a sort of self-murder on our country? 1826 New Monthly Mag. 17 459 Such an action in a king..is a species of political self-murder. 1885 Art Jrnl. Apr. 108/2 Such submission [by the artist] to mechanical needs may be a kind of self-murder. 1951 European Stars & Stripes (Darmstadt, Germany) 12 Apr. 5/4 The order was designed to protect the Soviet Zone economy from ‘self murder’ and keep Eastern marks out of the West. 2010 Africa News (Nexis) 9 Oct. Whichever faction [of the party] that fails to produce the chairman will be perceived to have committed political self-murder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). self-murderv. Now somewhat rare. intransitive or transitive (reflexive). To take one's own life; to commit suicide.Usually with condemnatory force. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [verb (reflexive)] murderc1175 spill1390 spoil1578 to make away1581 massacre1591 misdo1599 self-murder1648 to lay violent hands on (or upon)1662 to make away with1667 to rip up1807 suicide1818 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 153 Some have died under their own whipping, and have selfe murthered themselves. 1826 London Mag. Mar. 365 The man of strong inspirations is suicidal, felo de se: he self-murders himself; and, to add to his crime, he does it unconsciously and inconsiderately. 1903 Anamosa Prison Press 18 Apr. 7/3 As I look at the men around me, l believe some were not normal, that they were as the one who self-murders. 2015 Asian Tribune (Nexis) 26 Jan. A British newspaper reports that 247 U.S. troops self-murdered themselves in the year 2012. 2015 S. Byrd Mist of Midnight xxxii. 337 It was shortly after the memsahib had self-murdered and the household was distressed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570v.1648 |
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