English
Etymology
Middle French, complot, 'crowd', 'plot'
Verb
en-verb|complot|t|ed
- archaic To plot.
#:1580s 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.
#::� Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, s:The Spanish Tragedie|Act 3, Scene 2.
#:1592 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
#::� Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, s:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus#SCENE_I._Plains_near_Rome.|Act 5, Scene 1.
#:1597 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.
#::� Shakespeare, Richard II, s:The_Tragedy_of_King_Richard_the_Second#SCENE_I._London._A_Room_in_the_palace.|Act 1, Scene 1.
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