rare. [f. SUICIDE sb.2 + -ISM.] The doctrine or practice of suicide.
1807. Monthly Mag., XXIII. 361. Suicidism the doctrine of self-slaughter.
1842. J. Sterling, Ess., etc. (1848), I. 385. No doubt the Feudalism of the one, and the Suicidism of the other, are more fully developed in them than in any foreigners.
So Suicidist, one who commits suicide.
1880. Daily Tel., 24 Sept. In only one … calling did the female suicidists outnumber the male.
