Word Meanings - MURDERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Murder. Farfax.

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• MURDER
  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,
• MURDERMENT
  Murder. Farfax.
• MURDERESS
  A woman who commits murder.
• MURDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak.
• MURDERER
  1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. 2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
• SELF-MURDER
  Suicide.
• SELF-MURDERER
  A suicide.