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Definition of Felo-de-se
1. Noun. A person who kills himself intentionally.
2. Noun. An act of deliberate self destruction.
Definition of Felo-de-se
1. Noun. (legal) One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Felo-de-se
Literary usage of Felo-de-se
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Felo de Se. The act of a suicide when he commits self-murder. Murder is felony,
and a man who murders himself commits this felony—felt de te. Feed of Corn. ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"time in the morning in his own house adjoining to Deacon Williams's entry.
About Noon the Coroner shew'd me the Inquest, by which he was made Felo de se. ..."
3. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"Felo de se or suicide is, where a man of the age of discretion, and compos mentis,
voluntarily kills himself by stabbing, poison, or any other way. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"(11) [As to what a,felo de se shall forfeit, it seems clear that he shall forfeit
... The will of a felo de se, therefore, becomes void as to his personal ..."
5. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1871)
"... diet and stimulants judiciously administered, will in most cases ensure recovery.
felo-de-se. By JG DAVEY, MD (Read at the Annual Sleeting of the ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"A lunatic killing himself during a nt ia not guilty of felo de se ; but a merely
melancholy and hypochondriacal temperament is not such a state of1 mind as ..."
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