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▪ I. † aˈssassinate, n. Obs.
Also 7 assassinat, -asinate, -acinate.
[In sense 1, app. a. F. assassinat (16th c.), ad. med.L. assassīnātus (13th c. in Du Cange), f. med.L. (and It.) assassīnāre to assassinate. Of its use in sense 2, = assassin, no explanation appears; we may suspect some original misapprehension of the word, or perh. application of the analogy of homicide, parricide, etc.]
1. Murder, or an assault with intent to murder, by treacherous violence; assassination.
1602S. Patericke tr. Gentillet's Agst. Machiavell 228 All murders, massacres, and assassinates, are alwaies found done to a good end. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. v. 54 The bloudy assacinate of the Earl of Gowrie. 1671True Non-Conf. 406 There can be no proper assassinat, without an intervening price. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 195 Following him to Portsmouth..he committed the assassinate on his person.
b. fig.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 187 Who commit these Assassinats upon the reputation of deserving persons.
2. = assassin 2.
1600Holland Livy ii. xiii. 40 Nothing had saved him but the mistake of the Assassinate. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. vi. 159 Poverty alone makes men theeves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assacinates. 1676W. Row Suppl. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 519 Search out the villain, the assassinate. 1737G. Smith Cur. Relat. I. iii. 483 To raise the Number of Assassinates to three Hundred; then to fall upon the Magistrates.
b. fig. = assassin 3.
a1659Cleveland Gen. Poems (1677) 60 Scribling Assassinate!.. Cub of the Blatant Beast. 1695Whether Parl. dissolved by Death Pr. Orange 6 Those Miscreants, and Assassinates of their Country.
▪ II. assassinate, v.|əˈsæsɪneɪt|
[f. assassīnāt- ppl. stem of med.L. assassīnāre = It. assassinare, F. assassiner, f. the n.: see assassin and -ate.]
1. a. trans. To kill by treacherous violence.
1618Bolton Florus iv. ii. 292 Brutus and Cassius..conspired to assassinate him. 1775Harris Philos. Arrangem. (1841) 339 Cæsar, when he was assassinated, fell at the feet of Pompey's statue. 1813Southey Nelson iii. 65 He was assassinated by some wretches set on..by Genoa.
b. absol.
1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1022 To defend was to invade, And to assassinate to aid. 1803Mackintosh Def. Peltier Wks. 1846 III. 274 The most learned incitement to assassinate that ever was addressed to such ignorant ruffians.
†2. trans. To endeavour to kill by treacherous violence; to attack by an assassin. Obs.
1683Apol. Prot. France vi. 77 William of Orange was twice Assassinated, and lost his Life the Second time. 1706De Foe Jure Div. i. 19 Charles the Ninth carress'd the Admiral Coligni..Visited him when he had been Wounded, and Assassinated.
3. fig. To destroy or wound by treachery; to ‘stab’ reputation, etc. (Cf. murder v. 2.)
1626Massinger Rom. Actor ii. i, Sufficient For thee that dost assassinate my soul. 1683Dryden Dk. Guise v. (R.) Your rhimes assassinate our fame. 1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. I. 378 After his death they tried to assassinate his name. 1920Wodehouse Damsel in Distress ix. 115 The same feeling which a composer with an over-sensitive ear would suffer on hearing his pet opus assassinated by a school⁓girl. 1962Guardian 15 Nov. 3/1 Helping the Prime Minister in his political battle to assassinate Mr. George Brown. |