sicariatus

sicariatus [sicariare+-tus], murder (committed secretly or stealthily, or perh. by means of witchcraft or sim., in quot. in list of ‘paganisms’). 1033 ethnicismus est quum quis ‥ veneficium amat, vel ~um [AS: morþweorc] commitit ullo modo (Leg. Cnuti) Conc. I 306a (cf. (Quad.) GAS 313: murdri opus; (Inst. Cnuti) ib.: morthrum; (Cons. Cnuti) ib.: homicidium furtivum).