FELO-DE-SE

felo-de-se (fee-loh orfel-oh dee see), n. See SUICIDE(2). “ ‘Felo de se,’ or felon of himself is freely spoken of by the early writers as self-murder. Hence one who killed himself before he arrived at the age of discretion or while he was non compos mentis, was not a felo de se, or suicide…. [B]y […]