aberemurder
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English ǣbǣre morþ, from ǣbēr (“open, blatant”) + morþ (“murder”). The second element was assimilated to English murder.
Noun
[edit]aberemurder
- (historical) premeditated murder
- [1689, Nathaniel Bacon, An historical and political discourse of the laws & government of England, page 62:
- Yet they had degrees of blood-shed, and made a difference in the punishment; for some sprung from sudden passion, but other was forethought and purposed; which last they called Abere Murther, or Murther by foreplot or treachery […]]