Part 696

<blockquote>Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be <b>assassinated</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Your rhymes <b>assassinate</b> our fame. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, <b>assassinated</b> and betrayed. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To kill; murder; slay. See <er>Kill</er>.</syn>

<h1>Assassinate</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"sin*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>assassinat</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An assassination, murder, or murderous assault.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>If I had made an <b>assassinate</b> upon your father. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An assassin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Assassination</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas`si*na"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.</def>

<h1>Assassinator</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"si*na`tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An assassin.</def>

<h1>Assassinous</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"sin*ous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Murderous.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Assastion</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. LL. <ets>assatio</ets>, fr. L. <ets>assare</ets> to roast.]</ety> <def>Roasting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Assault</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sault"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>asaut</ets>, <ets>assaut</ets>, OF. <ets>assaut</ets>, <ets>asalt</ets>, F. <ets>assaut</ets>, LL. <ets>assaltus</ets>; L. <ets>ad + saltus</ets> a leaping, a springing, <ets>salire</ets> to leap. See <er>Assail</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; <as>as, to make <ex>assault</ex> upon a man, a house, or a town</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The Spanish general prepared to renew the <b>assault</b>. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Unshaken bears the <b>assault</b> Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; <as>as, to make an <ex>assault</ex> on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government</as>.</def>

<i>Clarendon.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a <i>battery</i>.</def>

<i>Blackstone. Wharton.</i>