Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Conspiracy involving the use of gunpowder; a gunpowder plot.
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Examples
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And in like manner how came they to grow so extremely crank and confident, and importune both upon church and state, just before and about the time of the powder-treason?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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I say, let the powder-treason be looked upon (as indeed it is) as the product of hell, as black as the souls and principles that hatched it; yet still this reformation-murder will preponderate; and January, in villainy, always have the precedency of November.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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