Su"i*cide (?), n. [L. sui of
one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay,
to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
1. 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. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-
se.
3. Ruin of one's own interests.
"Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide."
V. Knox.
Su"i*cide (?), n. [L. sui of
one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay,
to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]
1. 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. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-
se.
3. Ruin of one's own interests.
"Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide."
V. Knox.
