complot

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Verb 2 French 2.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

Middle French, complot, 'crowd', 'plot'

[edit] Verb

to complot (third-person singular simple present complots, present participle complotting, simple past and past participle complotted)

1. (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.

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[edit] Noun

complot m. (plural complots)

1. plot, conspiracy