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Connived

Connive \Con*nive"\ (k[o^]n*n[imac]v"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Connived (-n[imac]vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conniving.] [L. connivere to shut the eyes, connive, fr. con- + (perh.) a word akin to nicere to beckon, nictare to wink.]

  1. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. [Obs.]

    The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
    --Spectator.

  2. To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at.

    To connive at what it does not approve.
    --Jer. Taylor.

    In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving.
    --Burke.

    The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
    --Macaulay.

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vb. (en-past of: connive)

Usage examples of "connived".

My dear friend, we were a thorn in the Delink flesh, so they connived with you to pull it out.

The Democrats had unpardonably connived with one of the greatest evils of the twentieth century.

When the German pirates sailed from their own harbors, he connived at their passage, but he diligently intercepted their return, and appropriated to his own use an ample share of the spoil which they had acquired.

He filled Rome and Italy with armed troops, connived at their tumults, suffered them with impunity to plunder, and even to massacre, the defenceless people.

Parental tenderness was silenced by the voice of ambition: the Greek clergy connived at the marriage of a Christian princess with a sectary of Mahomet.

Liberals would have you believe that Republicans are infinitely susceptible to fascism's lures, but there is no evidence that any American ever connived with Hitler (though FDR was infatuated with Mussolini and had even sent advisors to Italy to take notes on Mussolini's brand of fascism as a model for the National Recovery Act).