Dictionary entry

Euthanasia

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Eu′tha‐na″si‐a (?) n. [NL., fr. Gr. �; � well + � death, �, �, to die: cf. F. euthanasie.] An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired. “An euthanasia of all thought.” Hazlitt.

The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia. Arbuthnot.