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Webster 1913 Edition
Assassinate
As-sas′sin-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Assassinated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Assassinating
.] [LL.
assassinatus
, p. p. of assassinare
.] 1.
To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.
Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be
assassinated
. Dryden.
2.
To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly.
[Archaic]
Your rhymes
assassinate
our fame. Dryden.
Such usage as your honorable lords
Afford me,
Afford me,
assassinated
and betrayed. Milton.
Syn. – To kill; murder; slay. See
Kill
. As-sas′sin-ate
,Noun.
[F.
assassinat
.] 1.
An assassination, murder, or murderous assault.
[Obs.]
If I had made an
assassinate
upon your father. B. Jonson.
2.
An assassin.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assassinate
ASSAS'SINATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To kill or attempt to kill, by surprise or secret assault; to murder by sudden violence. Assassin as a verb is not now used.2.
To way lay; to take by treachery.ASSAS'SINATE
,Noun.