complot
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
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verb
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Origin of complot
1570–80; < Middle French; compare Old French complot dense crowd, accord, understanding, conspiracy, complote assembly (of troops); of obscure origin
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Madam, be it in secret spoken to your self, if you will but follow the complot I have invented, you will not think me so forward as your self shall prove fortunate.
From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
To what fell complot was I then exposed!
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
Richard's speech: Nor never by advised purpose meet, To plot, contrive, or complot any ill, 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Rodoricke, thou highly favourest me in this And doubt not, if my complot take effect, Ile make thee Duke of Burbon.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
Flour and grain, by reason of the court's complot, began to run low.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne
"All these plots and complots are of your own invention," grumbled Desmarais, feeling very uneasy.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne
Come, let vs suppe betimes, that afterwards Wee may digest our complots in some forme.
From Richard III by Shakespeare, William
While they of Carrión this shame complotted each with each, In the midst a Moor o'erheard them, that could of Latin speech.
From The Lay of the Cid by Bacon, Leonard
It is the Countesse Iuliana the Marquesse of Mantuaes wife and no other, that hath complotted our confusion.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
If she could only see him face to face, she would be spared all this odious complotting.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)
The inhabitants of Geneva have long been contriving, intriguing, I will even say complotting, to get me up The Sal�ve.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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