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Felo-de-se

noun
1.
A person who kills himself intentionally.  Synonym: suicide.
2.
An act of deliberate self destruction.





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"Felo-de-se" Quotes from Famous Books



... account to Hocus, for audita querelas.. On the said account for writs of ejectment and distringas.. To Esquire South's quota for a return of a non est invent and nulla habet bona.. To —— for a pardon in forma pauperis.. To Jack for a melius inquirendum upon a felo-de-se.. To coach-hire.. For ...
— The History of John Bull • John Arbuthnot
... is relieved by a suicide—opens the last act: one of the anglers having finished a comic song—which from its extreme gravity forms an appropriate dirge to the forthcoming felo-de-se—goes off with his companion to leave the water clear for Barbara Allen, who enters, takes an affecting leave of her laird lover, and straightway drowns herself. Jack Ketch is now, by a rapid change of scene, discovered in limbo, and condemned to death; ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various


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