self-slain, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
Slain by one's own hand.
| 1814 Byron Devil's Drive i, Sausages made of a self-slain Jew. 1883 L. Morris Songs Unsung 27 Being self-slain and numbered with the dead. |
So self-ˈslayer, self-murderer.
| 1690 C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 212 Thou art..a felo-de-se or self-slayer. 1823 in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 390 They have, since Castlereagh cut his throat, relieved self-slayers from the disgrace of the cross-road burial. 1845 Bailey Festus 254 Let it not be said He sought his God in the self-slayer's way. |