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Assassin (n.) 1530s (in Anglo-Latin from mid-13c.), via French and Italian, from Arabic hashishiyyin 'hashish-users,' plural of hashishiyy, from the source of (q.v.). A fanatical Ismaili Muslim sect of the mountains of Lebanon in the time of the Crusades, under leadership of the 'Old Man of the Mountains' (translates Arabic shaik-al-jibal, name applied to Hasan ibu-al-Sabbah), they had a reputation for murdering opposing leaders after intoxicating themselves by eating hashish. The plural suffix -in was mistaken in Europe for part of the word (compare ). Middle English had the word as hassais (mid-14c.), from Old French hassasis, assasis, which is from the Arabic word.