v. t.
Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Such usage as your honorable lords
Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. assassinat. ]
If I had made an assassinate upon your father. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An assassin. [ 1913 Webster ]