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Hari-Kari
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Called also a "happy despatch," a form of suicide, now obsolete, permitted to offenders of high rank to escape the indignity of a public execution; the nature of it may be gathered from the name, "a gash in the belly."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hari-Kari'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hari-kari.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hari-Kari'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hari-kari.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
