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Webster 1913 Edition
Homicide
Hom′i-cide
,Noun.
1.
The killing of one human being by another.
☞ Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder.
Bouvier.
2.
One who kills another; a manslayer.
Chaucer. Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Homicide
HOM'ICIDE
,Noun.
1.
The killing of one man or human being by another. Homicide is of three kinds, justifiable, excusable, and felonious; justifiable, when it proceeds from unavoidable necessity, without an intention to kill, and without negligence; excusable, when it happens from misadventure, or in self-defense; felonious, when it proceeds from malice, or is done in the prosecution of some unlawful act, or in a sudden passion. Homicide committed with premeditated malice, is murder. Suicide also, or self-murder, is felonious homicide. Homicide comprehends murder and manslaughter.1.
A person who kills another; a manslayer.Definition 2024
homicide
homicide
See also: homicidé
English
Noun
homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)
- (uncountable) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
- (countable) A person who kills another.
- (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
- 1996, A J Holt, Watch Me :
- “She was a hippie kid. How hard would you work a case like that?”
- “As hard as anyone else,” said Goddard. There was an irritated note in his voice. “She was a homicide. She got what every homicide investigation gets.”
- 2003, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People (ISBN 1930859449), page 58:
- We don't even know the woman was a homicide. Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?
- 2004, Jon Talton, Dry Heat (ISBN 0312333854), page 40:
- The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide.
- 1996, A J Holt, Watch Me :
Synonyms
- (unlawful killing of a person by another): assassination, killing, first-degree murder (US; intentional), manslaughter (unintentional), murder (intentional), second-degree murder (US; unintentional)
- (person who unlawfully kills another person): assassin, killer, man-slayer, murderer
- (victim of homicide): murder victim
Derived terms
Translations
the killing of one person by another
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a person who kills another
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police jargon: a victim of homicide
See also
- filicide
- familicide
- feticide
- fratricide
- genocide
- infanticide
- mariticide
- matricide
- parricide
- patricide
- populicide
- prolicide
- regicide
- sororicide
- suicide
- unlawful death
- uxoricide
French
Noun
homicide m (plural homicides)
Noun
homicide m, f (plural homicides)
Adjective
homicide m, f (plural homicides)
- killer; that kills
Verb
homicide
- first-person singular present indicative of homicider
- third-person singular present indicative of homicider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of homicider
- third-person singular present subjunctive of homicider
- second-person singular imperative of homicider