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Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.

ection of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess, murder of female infants, and marriage by capture.

A boy; especially, a boy servant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak.

time during which the light of the sun is visible; day; especially, the dawn of day. The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy. Job xxiv. 14.

d main, with all one's strength; with violent effort. With might and main they chased the murderous fox. Dryden.

- Major offense (Law), an offense of a greater degree which contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery include assault. -- Major premise (Logic), that premise of a syllogism which contains the major term. -- Major scale (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and se…

nd villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenser.

Murder. [Obs.] Shak.

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

nd bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner. Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul. Pope.

purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.

Murder, n. & v. [Obs. or Prov.] "The treason of the murthering." Chaucer.

A murderer. [Obs. or Prov.]

Natural affection or reverence. Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, Through violated nature foce his way Pope.

An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras.

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

The murderer of his father.

jection, as one's husband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguished from murder.

rwhelmed with difficulties. [R.] She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son. Sir P. Sidney. And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows Addison.

e) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.