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12 days ago qroqqa said:

This of course is just the Latinization of 'murder', and was used in the Middle Ages specifically for the fine incurred by a community where a murder had taken place: the word 'murder' meant a homicide by an unknown perpetrator. As the guilty individual was unknown, their manor or hundred must bear the penalty.

3 months ago bilby said:

If only Kubrick had known this word.

3 months ago oroboros said:

The killing of a human being in a secret manner.

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