See also:

• RUNNING

RUNNING See also:

• RUNNING AMUCK (or more properly AMox)

AMUCK (or more properly AMox)  , the native See also:

• TERM

term for the homicidal See also:

• MANIA

mania which attacks See also:

• MALAYS

Malays . A See also:

• MALAY

Malay will suddenly and apparently without See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason See also:

• RUSH
• RUSH, BENJAMIN (1745–1813)
• RUSH, RICHARD (1780–1859)

rush into the See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street armed with a kris or other weapon, and slash and cut at every-See also:

• BODY

body he meets till he is killed . These frenzies were formerly regarded as due to sudden See also:

• INSANITY (from Lat. in, not, and sanus, sound)

insanity . It is now, however, certain that the typical amok is the result of circumstances, such as domestic See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy or gambling losses, which render a Malay desperate and weary of his See also:

• LIFE

life . It is, in fact, the Malay See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent of See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide . " The See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of See also:

• RUNNING

running See also:

• AMUCK, RUNNING (or more properly AMox)

amuck is probably due to causes over which the See also:

• CULPRIT

culprit has some amount of See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control, as the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom has now died out in the See also:

• BRITISH

British possessions in the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula, the offenders probably objecting to being caught and tried in See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

• BLOOD

blood " (W . W . See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat) . Though so intimately associated with the Malay there is some ground for believing the word to have an See also:

• INDIAN

Indian origin, and the act is certainly far from unknown in Indian See also:

• HISTORY

history . Some notable cases have occurred among the Rajputs . Thus, in 1634, the eldest son of the See also:

• RAJA

raja of See also:

• JODHPUR, or MARWAR

Jodhpur ran amuck at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor, but killing five of his officials . During the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, again, at See also:

• HYDERABAD, HAIDARABAD
• HYDERABAD, or HAIDARABAD

Hyderabad (See also:

• SIND

Sind), two envoys, sent by the Jodhpur See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief in regard to a See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel between the two states, stabbed the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince and twenty-six of his See also:

• SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita)

suite before they themselves See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell .

In See also:

• MALABAR

Malabar there were certain professional assassins known to old travellers as Amouchi or Amuco . The nearest See also:

• MODERN

modern equivalent to these words would seem to be the Malayalim Amarkhan, " a See also:

• WARRIOR

warrior " (from amar, " fight ") . The Malayalim term chaver applied to these ruffians meant literally those " who devote themselves to See also:

• DEATH

death." In Malabar was a custom by which the zamorin or See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• CALICUT

Calicut had to cut his See also:

• THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat in public when he had reigned twelve years . In the 17th century a variation in his See also:

• FATE

fate was made . He had to take his seat, after a See also:

• GREAT

great feast lasting twelve days, at a See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly, surrounded by his armed suite, and it was lawful for anyone to attack him, and if he succeeded in killing him the murderer himself became zamorin (see Alex . See also:

• HAMILTON
• HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
• HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
• HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
• HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
• HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
• HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
• HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
• HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
• HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
• HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
• HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)

Hamilton, " A new See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

Account of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Indies," in See also:

• PINKERTON, ALLAN (1819–1884)
• PINKERTON, JOHN (1758–1826)

Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels, viii . 374). in 1600 See also:

• THIRTY

thirty would-be assassins were killed in their attempts . These men were called Amar-See also:

• KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

khan, and it has been suggested that their See also:

• ACTION

action was " running amuck " in the true Malay sense . Another proposed derivation for amouchi is See also:

• SANSKRIT

Sanskrit amokshya, " that cannot be loosed," suggesting that the murderer was See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound by a See also:

• VOW (Lat. votum, vow, promise: cf. VOTE)

vow, an explanation more than once advanced for the Malay amuck; but amokshya in such a sense is unknown in Malayalim . See See also:

• SIR

Sir F . A . Swettenham, Malay Sketches (1895); H .

See also:

• CLIFFORD
• CLIFFORD, JOHN (1836- )
• CLIFFORD, WILLIAM KINGDON (1845-1879)

Clifford, Studies in See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

Brown Humanity (1898) .