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  1. A plotting together; a joint plot; a confederacy in some design; a conspiracy. I'll disclose The complot to your father. Chapman, Gentleman Usher, iv. 1. I know their complot is to have my life. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.
  2. To plan together; contrive; plot. Thus liuing in this slauish life as is aforesaid, diuers of vs complotted and hammered into our heads how we might procure our releasement. Webbe, Travels (ed. Arber), p. 28. Nobles complotting nobles' speedy fall. Ford, Fame's Memorial. Craft, greed and violence complot revenge. Browning, Ring and Book, II. 190.
  3. To plot together; conspire; form a plot; join in a secret design, generally criminal. The other 3, complotting with him, ran away from their maisters in the night. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 363.

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  • He clears the now master of any foreknowledge of this complot, but they relied on Ivett's judgment and skill. —  Henry Hudson
  • Short Synopsis: Our lead characters meets a cute woman who is involved with an intergalactic space-complot. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • Deeply concerned with the great threat geared to complete one of the world´s most excruciating spiritual, cultural, and physical genocides, today´s leading Aramaean intellectuals and activists of the group of Aram Nahrin highlighted in a recent publication the darkest aspects of the "Assyrian" - pseudo-Kurdish complot that - beyond the aforementioned - seems to also have eschatological and messianic dimensions. —  American Chronicle
  • The purpose of the complot which ye tell; For well I wot (compar'd to all the rest Of each degree) that beggers life is best 180 And they that thinke themselves the best of all Oft-times to begging are content to fall. —  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
  • And he was exalted, and made the cap of Shiraz nod in his conceit, crying, 'Am I not leader in this complot? —  The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
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  1. = D. Danish komplot = German complot = Swedish komplott, from French complot, a conspiracy, plot, Old French a crowd, a battle, a plot, prob. for *comploit, from Latin complicitum, later form of complicatum, neuter of complicatus, past participle of complicare, involve, complicate: see complicate, v., and complice. See plot.
  2. from French comploter, from complot: see complot, n.
 

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