assassinatorn.
/əˈsasᵻneɪtə/, U.S. /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪdər/ An assassin.
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin
banea800
murthereOE
quellerOE
manslaughta1225
manquellec1275
murderer1340
Cainc1380
drepera1400
sicariana1400
murder mana1450
interfector1450
murdrier1481
murdresara1500
assassin1531
cut-throat1535
cutter1569
baner1605
brave1606
bravo1609
dagger-mana1616
assassinate1621
assassinator1651
sword-taker1660
assassinant1662
banesman1870
hatchet man1876
murdermonger1900
hit-man1970
mechanic1972
contract killer1980
1651 H. Parker Scotlands Holy War 3 Some Noblemen that were invited to a bloodie supper, got timely advertisement of the royall assassinators, and so by flying privily out of Edenburgh secured themselves.
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 9 Oh you his immediate Assasinators, you Madmen, you Murtherers.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4029/3 Looked upon..as Assassinators.
1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vii. 286 No less than a King-Killer and an Assassinator.
1820 Monthly Mag. May 367/2 Thistlewood, one of the proposed assassinators,..was the first person tried.
1897 Gentleman Farmer Feb. 127 We need..a curculio buster, a..potato bug assassinator.
1920 J. T. Tussaud Romance Madame Tussaud's xxxiv. 241 We saw a room in which were the images of almost all the assassinators with the particulars of their deeds.
2000 J. Lavery in C. Bush et al. Journey Prize Anthol. 148 The assassinators, after a string of glorious successes, had managed only to disable as motionless a target as George Wallace.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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