Homicide

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homicide \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.
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     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.
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     2. One who kills another; a manslayer. --Chaucer. Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  homicide
       n : the killing of a human being by another human being

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "homicide":
     Cain, aborticide, apache, assassin, assassination, assassinator,
     blood, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bloody murder, bravo,
     bumping-off, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cutthroat,
     desperado, elimination, eradicator, executioner, exterminator,
     foul play, fratricide, fungicide, garroter, genocide, germicide,
     gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, hatchet man, head-hunter, herbicide,
     hit man, homicidal maniac, infanticide, insecticide, killer,
     killing, liquidation, man-eater, man-killer, manslaughter,
     manslayer, massacrer, matador, matricide, microbicide, murder,
     murderer, parricide, patricide, pesticide, poison, poisoner, purge,
     purging, regicide, removal, rodenticide, slaughterer, slayer,
     sororicide, strangler, suicide, thug, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism,
     torpedo, trigger man, uxoricide, vermicide
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  HOMICIDE, crim. law. According to Blackstone, it is the killing of any human 
  creature. 4 Com. 177. This is the most extensive sense of this word, in 
  which the intention is not considered. But in a more limited sense, it is 
  always understood that the killing is by human agency, and Hawkins defines 
  it to be the killing of a man by a man. 1 Hawk. c. 8, s. 2. See Dalloz, 
  Dict. h.t. Homicide may perhaps be described to be the destruction of the 
  life of one human being, either by himself, or by the act, procurement, or 
  culpable omission of another. When the death has been intentionally caused 
  by the deceased himself, the offender is called felo de se; when it is 
  caused by another, it is justifiable, excusable, or felonious. 
       2. The person killed must have been born; the killing before birth is 
  balled foeticide. (q.v.) 
       3. The destruction of human life at any period after birth, is 
  homicide, however near it may be to extinction, from any other cause. 
       4.-1. Justifiable homicide is such as arises, 1st. From unavoidable 
  necessity, without any will, intention or desire, and without any 
  inadvertence in the party killing, and therefore without blame; as, for 
  instance, the execution, according to law, of a criminal who has been 
  lawfully sentenced to be hanged; or, 2d. It is committed for the advancement 
  of public justice; as if an officer, in the lawful execution of his office, 
  either in a civil or criminal case, should kill a person who assaults and 
  resists him. 4 Bl. Com. 178-1 80. See Justifiable Homicide. 
       5.-2. Excusable homicide is of two kinds 1st. Homicide per 
  infortunium. (q.v.) or, 2d. Se defendendo, or self defence. (q.v.) 4 Bl. 
  Com. 182, 3. 
       6.-3. Felonious homicide, which includes, 1. Self-murder, or suicide; 
  2. Man-slaughter, (q.v.); and, 3. Murder. (q.v.) Vide, generally, 3 Inst. 
  47 to 57; 1 Hale P. C. 411 to 602; 1 Hawk. c. 8; Fost. 255 to 837; 1 East, 
  P. C. 214 to 391; Com. Dig. Justices, L. M.; Bac. Ab. Murder and Homicide; 
  Burn's Just. h.t.; Williams' Just. h.t.; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, ch. 9; Cro. C. 
  C. 285 to 300; 4 Bl. Com. to 204; 1 Russ. Cr. 421 to 553; 2 Swift's Dig. 267 
  to 292. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HOMICIDE, n.  The slaying of one human being by another.  There are
  four kinds of homocide:  felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
  praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
  whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
  advantage of the lawyers.