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.—a body of hired assassins, who enter into partnership together in the trade of war. Thus for six-pence a day one human being lets himself out to murder as many others as he can. The Bishop of London says truly,

One murder makes a villain, thousands a hero.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Regiment