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Answer for the clue "Conspirator ", 12 letters:
catilinarian

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Catilinarian \Cat`i*li*na"ri*an\, a. [L. Catilinarius.] Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

Usage examples of catilinarian.

In fact, the more Cicero thought about Caesar, the more convinced he became that Caesar had been a part of the Catilinarian conspiracy, if only because victory for Catilina meant that his burden of debt would be removed.

Thanks to his big brother, who had loathed Caesar ever since he had opposed the execution of the Catilinarian conspirators, Quintus tended to mistrust Caesar too.

The biggest Catilinarian fish of all had never been named by any of the informersPublius Sulla.

AEdileship the first Catilinarian conspiracy occurred, and from this time his history forms a portion of that of the times.

When he fled the city before he could be arrested, Luther revenged himself partly by a Catilinarian sermon, partly by composing, for circulation among his friends, some verses about Lemnius in which the scurrility and obscenity of the offending youth were well over-trumped.