SUICIDE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

2.
n.

One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

3.
n.

Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide." V. Knox.


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