self-ˈkilled, pa. pple.
[self- 2.]
Killed by one's own hand; self-destroyed.
| c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. vi. 4 Treasure thou some place, With beauties treasure ere it be selfe kil'd. 1671 Milton Samson 1664 And now ly'st victorious Among thy slain self-kill'd. |
So
self-ˈkiller, a suicide;
self-ˈkilling, self-murder, suicide.
| 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriot 37 No relicks of traitors to their country, *self-killers or sacrilegious malefactors. |
| 1618 Bolton Florus (1636) To Rdr., Heathen, with whom..*self-killing, to avoyd disgrace, seemed an high point of true magnanimity. a 1721 Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1729) I. 149 In those Times Self-killing was not rare. |