HARA-KIRI

n.

1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


n.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.


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