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Definitions of assassin in various dictionaries:
noun - a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
noun - a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
They were members of a secret Islamic order originating in the 11th century who believed it was a religious duty to harass and murder their enemies.
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Hit maker? |
Hired gun |
Offer? |
Mr. or Mrs. Smith, in a 2005 film |
Hit-man |
Ruby, for one |
Booth, for one |
Booth, e.g. |
Oswald or Sirhan |
Hired killer |
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This term for a type of killer comes from the belief that consumption of hashish occurred in their ranks |
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A person who murders an important person for political or religious reasons. |
A member of the Nizari branch of Ismaili Muslims at the time of the Crusades, when the newly established sect ruled part of northern Persia (10941256). They were renowned as militant fanatics, and were popularly reputed to use hashish before going on murder missions. |
a member of the Nizari branch of Ismaili Muslims at the time of the Crusades, when the newly established sect ruled part of northern Persia (10941256). They were renowned as militant fanatics, and were popularly reputed to use hashish before going on murder missions. |
a person who murders an important person for political or religious reasons. |
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed |
a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terroriszed and killed Christian Crusaders |
someone who kills a famous or important person, usually for political reasons or in exchange for money: |
a person who murders a famous or important person, esp. for political reasons or in exchange for money |
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Order of Assassins or simply Assassins (Arabic: assn, [asasin]; Persian: haâin, [hæin]) is the common name used to refer to an Islamic sect formally known as the Nizari Ismailis. Based on texts from Alamut, their grand master Hassan-i Sabbah tended to call his disciples Assyn (, meaning "people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]"), but some foreign travelers misunderstood the name as deriving from the term hashish.Often described as a secret order led by a mysterious "Old Man of the Mountain", the Nizari Ismailis formed in the late 11th century after a split within Ismailism a branch of Shia Islam. * The Nizaris posed a strategic threat to Sunni Seljuq authority by capturing and inhabiting several mountain fortresses throughout Persia and later Syria, under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah. Asymmetric warfare, psychological warfare, and surgical strikes were often a tactic of the assassins, drawing their opponents into submission rather than risk killing them.While "A |