Committing premeditated homicide. By extension it also applies when the victim is not a person, even when he is a concept and not a living being, such as truth, democracy, love, etc. . . It is a verb created from asesino, a word that came to Spanish through its Italian, French and English versions since Arabic 1581; 1588; 1575; 1588; 1610; 1606; (jayaayíin "drug addicts"), which was a derogatory name for the Nizaris, a Shia sect famous for staging targeted crimes against political and military rivals during the ninth century. It is assumed that his hitmen were hashish users, although it may also be that the name is just an insult ("marginal, vicious") as a pun on their leader Hasan-i Sabbah (better known as The Old Man of the Mountain). See "Acecinar (prepare corned beef").