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Webster 1913 Edition

Murder

Mur′der

(mûr′dẽr)
,
Noun.
[OE.
morder
,
morther
, AS.
morðor
, fr.
morð
murder; akin to D.
moord
, OS.
morð
, G., Dan., & Sw.
mord
, Icel.
morð
, Goth.
maúrþr
, OSlav.
mrēti
to die, Lith.
mirti
, W.
marw
dead, L.
mors
,
mortis
, death,
mori
,
moriri
, to die, Gr.
βροτόσ
(for
μροτός
) mortal,
ἄμβροτοσ
immortal, Skr.
mṛ
to die,
mṛta
death. √105. Cf.
Amaranth
,
Ambrosia
,
Mortal
.]
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
“Mordre will out.”
Chaucer.
The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of
murder
, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry.
Locke.
Slaughter grows
murder
when it goes too far.
Dryden.
☞ Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life.
Wharton.

Mur′der

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Murdered
(mûr′dẽrd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Murdering
.]
[OE.
mortheren
,
murtheren
, AS.
myrðrian
; akin to OHG.
murdiren
, Goth.
maúrþrjan
. See
Murder
,
Noun.
]
1.
To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See
Murder
,
Noun.
2.
To destroy; to put an end to.
[Canst thou]
murder
thy breath in middle of a word?
Shakespeare
3.
To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle;
as, to
murder
the king’s English
.
Syn. – To kill; assassinate; slay. See
Kill
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Murder

MUR'DER

,
Noun.
[L. mors.]
1.
The act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice, by a person of sound mind. To constitute murder in law, the person killing another must be of sound mind or in possession of his reason, and the act must be done with malice prepense, aforethought or premeditated; but malice may be implied, as well as express.
2.
An outcry, when life is in danger.

MUR'DER

, v.t.
1.
To kill a human being with premeditated malice. [See the Noun.]
2.
To destroy; to put an end to.
Canst thou murder thy breath in middle of a word?

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