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verb (complot, t, ed)
- (archaic) To plot.
- 1580s Now to confirme the 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.
Etymology: Middle French, complot, 'crowd', 'plot'
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