Bible Dictionaries
Suicide
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(adv.) 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):
(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
(3):
(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Suicide'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/suicide.html. 1828.