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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aborticide, car of Jagannath, disembowelment, felo-de-se, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, hara-kiri, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, mass suicide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, ritual suicide, rodenticide, self-destruction, self-immolation, self-murder, self-sacrifice, seppuku, sororicide, suttee, sutteeism, uxoricide, vermicide
Dictionary Results for suicide:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
suicide
    n 1: the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit
         suicide" [syn: suicide, self-destruction, self-
         annihilation]
    2: a person who kills himself intentionally [syn: suicide,
       felo-de-se]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Suicide \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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be
      justly called political suicide." --V. Knox.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SUICIDE, crimes, med. jur. The act of malicious self-murder; felo de se. 
(q.v.) 3 Man. Gran. & Scott, 437, 457, 458; 1 Hale, P. C.. 441. But it has 
been decided in England that where a man's life was insured, and the policy 
contained a proviso that "every policy effected by a person on his or her 
own life should be void, if such person should commit suicide, or die by 
duelling or the hands of justice," the terms of the condition included all 
acts of voluntary self-destruction, whether the insured at the time such act 
was committed, was or was not a moral responsible agent. 3 Man. Gr. & Scott, 
437. In New York it has been held, that an insane person cannot commit 
suicide, because. such person has no will. 4 Hill' 3 R. 75. 
     2. It is not punishable it is believed in any of the United States, as 
the unfortunate object of this offence is beyond the reach of human 
tribunals, and to deprive his family of the property he leaves would be 
unjust. 
     3. In cases of sudden death, it is of great consequence to ascertain, 
on finding the body, whether the deceased has been murdered, died suddenly 
of a natural death, or whether he has committed suicide. By a careful 
examination of the position of the body, and of the circumstances attending 
it, it can be generally ascertained whether the deceased committed suicide, 
was murdered, or died a natural death. But there are sometimes cases of 
suicide which can scarcely be distinguished from those of murder. A case of 
suicide is mentioned by Doctor Devergie, (Annales d'Hygiene, transcribed by 
Trebuchet, Jurisprudence de la Medecine, p. 40,) which bears a striking 
analogy to a murder. The individual went to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, 
near Paris, and with a razor inflicted a wound on himself immediately below 
the oshyoide; the first blow penetrated eleven lines in depth; a second, in 
the wound made by the first, pushed the instrument to the depth of twenty-
one lines; a third extended as far as the posterior of the pharynx, cutting 
the muscles which attached the tongue to the oshyoide, and made a wound of 
two inches in depth. Imagine an enormous wound, immediately under the chin, 
two inches in depth, and three inches and three lines in width, and a foot 
in circumference; and then judge whether such wound could not be easily 
mistaken as having been made by a stranger, and not by the deceased. Vide 
Death, and 1 Briand, Med. Leg. 2e partie, c. 1, art. 6. 



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