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Definition of Complot

1. Verb. Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together. "They complot to move "; "They conspired to overthrow the government"

Definition of Complot

1. n. A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.

2. v. t. & i. To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.

Definition of Complot

1. Noun. a plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy ¹

2. Verb. (archaic) To plot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Complot

1. to conspire [v -PLOTTED, -PLOTTING, -PLOTS] - See also: conspire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complot

Literary usage of Complot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1875)
"... CHAPTER THE complot OF SIR HENRY CLINTON AND ARNOLD. 1780. DESULTORY movements of the British and Ameri- CHAP. can troops in the North during the ..."

2. The Cradle of Rebellions: A History of the Secret Societies of France by Lucien de La Hodde (1864)
"As a preparatory measure, a rumor was quietly spread that the suburbs had formed a complot against some portion of the National Guard, which was supposed to ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The word complot does not appear to be in much earlier use ; and further ... Shak. has both plot and complot, and both words are employed by him both as sb. ..."

4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"I have stated my belief that plot, in the sense of ' conspiracy,' is short for complot, used in the same sense. It may be fairly objected, that this is not ..."

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