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Plot in secrecy
Answer for the clue "Plot in secrecy ", 8 letters:
conspire
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French conspirer (14c.), from Latin conspirare "to agree, unite, plot," literally "to breathe together," from com- "together" (see com- ) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)). Or perhaps the notion is "to blow together" musical instruments, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To secretly plot or make plans together, often used regarding something bad or illegal. 2 (context intransitive English) To agree, to concur to one end. 3 (context transitive English) To try to bring about.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conspire \Con*spire"\ (k[o^]n*sp[imac]r"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conspired (k[o^]n*sp[imac]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conspiring .] [F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit .] To make an ...
Usage examples of conspire.
They had met earlier at Passy, corresponded over naval matters, and Jones, quite unjustly, had decided that Adams, in his role as commissioner, was conspiring against him.
But criminals seemed to have conspired against Little Arcady, to cheat it of its rightful distinction.
When mysterious fires broke out, blacks and whites were accused of conspiring together.
It is enacted, in the name, and by the authority of Arcadius, that all those who should conspire, either with subjects or with strangers, against the lives of any of the persons whom the emperor considers as the members of his own body, shall be punished with death and confiscation.
Always lending an attentive ear to the plots of the wicked, whose end is to deceive, to deprive their prince of his just dues, and to conspire secretly, I have over and again unveiled their secret plans, and have not failed to report to Messer-Grande all I know.
Now talking, conspiring mysteriously again upon the wall of concrete blocks, and prowling off desperately into the dark of streets, yards, and alleys, filled exultantly with the huge and evil presence of the dark, and hoping, with a kind of desperate terror and resolve, for something wicked, wild, and evil in the night, as jubilant and dark as the demonic joy that rose wildly and intolerably in their hearts.
Julius Apollo Filmer had been accused of conspiring to murder a stable lad who had been unwise enough to say loudly and drunkenly in a Newmarket pub that he knew things about Mr.
One day, when Gunter and his thanes were out, Hedwig and I conspired to see Joscelin bathed.
Though, plainly, she had been horrendously brutalized and, the medical examiner would conclude, most probably raped, an overnight thunderstorm and the rushing creek had conspired to frustrate investigators in their search for clues.
One night we find ourselves in a Memphis tavern where a gang of sturdy but not very bright Hyksos adventurers are conspiring over beer.
It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof--maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak.
And, because I love my sister Shams, I conspire with her in that plan.
The waters that were now, as they climbed to a greater height, almost invisible beneath them, whispered ceaselessly like conspiring maniacs in some Tartarean bedlam.
But events, uncontrollable and whimsical in their very unrelatedness had conspired to make a tangled web of circumstances.
To the low and sullen murmur of the breeze, passing among the woods, she no longer listened with any degree of pleasure, for it conspired with the wildness of the scene and the evening hour, to depress her spirits.