complot
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle French, complot, 'crowd', 'plot'
[edit] Verb
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to complot (third-person singular simple present complots, present participle complotting, simple past and past participle complotted)
- (archaic) To plot.
- 1580s, Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 1.
- Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast
- Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch,
- Vpon precise commandement from the king
- Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano
- This night shall murder haples Serberine.
- 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, Act 3, Scene 2.
- For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,
- Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
- Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,
- Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd
- 1597 , Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 1, Scene 1.
- Besides, I say and will in battle prove,
- Or here, or elsewhere to the furthest verge
- That ever was survey'd by English eye,
- That all the treasons for these eighteen years
- Complotted and contrived in this land,
- Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
- 1580s, Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 1.
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
complot m. (plural complots)