complot
Americannoun
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complots
plural
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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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The Raad thereupon publicly gave thanks to the Almighty, Who had revealed and frustrated this 'hideous complot.'
From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
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 Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nay, if the Douglas and the Hepburn hatch the complot together, the bird, when it breaks the shell, will scare Scotland.
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
I will leaue not a root, a stalke, a tree, A bowe, a branch, a blossome, nor a leafe,— Not, not a hearb within this garden plot, Accursed complot of my miserie!
From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd
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)
"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 Eug?ne Sue
Far from concealing, let us show the boy, And let the diadem surround his head: I even will urge on the expected hour, Before vile Mathan's complots can be formed.
From Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) by J. Donkersley
Come, let vs suppe betimes, that afterwards Wee may digest our complots in some forme.
From Richard III by William Shakespeare
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 Leonard Bacon
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 Edmund Gosse
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 Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
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