suicidel (suisid)

[= F. suicide = Sp. Pg. It. suicida, If fate forbears us, fancy strikes the blow; We make misfortune, suicides in woe. suggestive (su-jes'tiv), a. and n. [F.suggest if = Pg. It. suggestivo; as suggest + -ive.] I. a. 1. Containing a suggestion or hint; suggesting what does not appear on the surface; also, full of suggestion; stimulating reflection. He [Bacon] is, throughout, and especially in his E ays, one of the most suggestive authors that ever wrote. Whately, Pref. to Bacon's E ays. "The king [of Uganda] habitually bears a couple of spears": a duplication of weapons again suggestive , like the two swords, of a trophy [one presumably being taken from an enemy]. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 409. 2. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, hypnotic suggestion. Hypnotic or suggestive therapeutics. Björnstrom, Hypnotism, p. 91. II. n . Something intended to suggest ideas to the mind. suggestively (su-jes'tiv-li), adv . In a suggestive manner; by way of suggestion; so as to suggest, or stimulate reflection. who, in maliciously attempting to kill another, occasions his own death, as where a man shoots at another and the gun bursts and kills himself. H. Stephen. The argument which Plutarch and other writers derived from human dignity was that true courage is shown in the manful endurance of suffering, while suicide , being an act of flight, is an act of cowardice, and therefore unworthy Lecky , Europ. Morals, II. 46. 2. Figuratively, destruction of one's own inter of man. ests or aims. IMG:content-2442.png:[blocks in formation] But his suicisme was so gro e that any of Ahab's relations (whom he made run out of all they had) might read it. R. Whitlock , Zootomia, p. 383. ( Nares .) Suidæ (sū'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Sus + -ida.] The swine; the suiform or suilline quadrupeds, a family of setiferous artiodactyl (or even toed) non-ruminant ungulate mammals, typified by the genus Sus . The family formerly con tained all the swine, and corresponded to the three modern families the Dicotylidæ or peccaries, the Phacoche ridæ or wart-hogs, and the Suidæ proper. In these last the pal a to maxillary axis is scarcely deflected, or nearly parallel with the occipitosphenoid axis; the bas i sphenoid is normal, without sinuses; the orbits are directed outward and forward; the malar bones are elongated, and expanded downward; and the dentition is normal, with 44 teeth. The restricted family contains, besides the genus Sus, the Indian Porcula , the African Potamochœrus or river-hogs, and the Malayan Babiru a . See cuts under babiru a , boar , peccary , Phacochœrus, and Potamochærus . suiform (sū'i-fôrm), a . [ sus , swine, + form a , form.] Having the form or characters of the Suidæ ; related to the swine; of or pertaining to the Suiformia .