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  • Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.

    Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011

  • Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.

    Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011

  • Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.

    Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011

  • Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.

    Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011

  • Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.

    Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011

  • His tone invited commiseration, while his brain soared with the dreams of a hashish-eater.

    King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

  • The hashish-eater knows something of this terror of time, and I seemed to have eaten hashish that night.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • Then said the folk, 'Art thou not ashamed, O hashish-eater, and thou lying asleep and naked, with thy yard on end?'

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

  • Now the hashish-eater, of whom we have before spoken, was sitting by him; but when he saw him do this, the fumes of the hashish left his head and he fled from his place and sat down afar off, saying, 'I will have nothing to do with yonder dish.'

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • 'Let him eat,' said the hashish-eater; 'methinks he hath a gallows-face.'

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

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  • Assassin?

    August 5, 2009

  • correct

    August 5, 2009

  • *checks grassy knoll for traces of hashish*

    August 5, 2009

  • This etymology is widely questioned these days, but I've never found any of the alternatives given convincing.

    August 7, 2009