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To: bentway who wrote (197813)4/3/2021 1:36:53 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 366100
 
Both Merriam-Webster and wikipedia agree with Lane's definition. Interestingly, Bing's first hit mentions intentional as well, though ...

merriam-webster.com

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To: bentway who wrote (197813)4/3/2021 2:41:02 PM
From: Lane3  Respond to of 366100
 
My point was that homicide as manner of death on an autopsy report is a term of art, not common parlance. The following definitions, however, are common parlance and subsume the term of art usage I describe.

From dictionary.com

homicide
-the killing of one human being by another.
-a person who kills another; murderer.


From merriam-webster.com

homicide
1 : a person who kills another
2 : a killing of one human being by another


The illegal killing of one person by another is the definition of murder.

From Webster:


Definition of murder

1 : the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought
[The reason I'm so aware of the definition of murder is from carefully studying the assertion that abortion is murder. The key words are "person" and "unlawfully." Abortion is not murder if the subject is not a person or abortion is not against the law. ]