Definitions for: Homicide


[n] unlawful premeditated killing of a human being



Webster (1913) Definition: Hom"i*cide, n. [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a
man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage,
and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.]
1. The killing of one human being by another.

Note: 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.

Synonyms: execution, murder, slaying

See Also: assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, dry-gulching, elimination, fratricide, gore, hit, infanticide, kill, killing, liquidation, mass murder, massacre, parricide, putting to death, shoot-down, slaughter, thuggee, tyrannicide

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