> he simply introduced new words into the still-inchoate English language when none seemed to do the trick; Browne is responsible for “hallucination” and “suicide,” along with about a hundred other neologisms.
I'm having a hard time believing there wasn't a translation of the word "suicide" until 1600s. Wasn't suicide all over classical mythology? Wasn't it well known that Cato committed suicide rather than submit to Caesar? How did they describe such things?