Crossword clues for conspiracies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See Conspiration.]
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A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point.
--Chaucer.They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah].
--2 Kings xiv. 19.I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates.
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A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things.
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(Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.
Syn: Combination; plot; cabal.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of conspiracy English)
Wikipedia
Conspiracies is the third volume in a series of Repairman Jack books written by American author F. Paul Wilson. The book was first published in March 1999 by Gauntlet Press as a signed, limited edition. A trade hardcover edition by Forge followed in February 2000.
Conspiracies is a documentary television programme produced by the BBC and broadcast on both BBC Choice (from 2 January 2001) and TechTV (from 1 October 2003). The series was hosted by Clive Anderson. Though a small number of episodes were produced, they focused on a variety of well known conspiracy theories.
Conspiracies is the first installment in the Conspiracies series of video games. Conspiracies was developed by Anima Interactive.
Usage examples of "conspiracies".
Jonathan Vankin, Conspiracies, Cover-Ups & Crimes: From Dallas to Waco, (Lilburn, GA: Illuminit Press, 1996), p.
And one of the most efficacious remedies that a prince can have against conspiracies is not to be hated and despised by the people, for he who conspires against a prince always expects to please them by his removal.
And as experience shows, many have been the conspiracies, but few have been successful.
Machiavelli's strong condemnation of conspiracies may get its edge from his own very recent experience (February 1513), when he had been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the Boscoli conspiracy.
Terrified of new conspiracies or assassination attempts, she had filled the palace with hosts of armed guards, consulted only a handful of councillors whose integrity she had no cause to doubt, and would only permit five trusted ladies to enter her chamber and attend to her personal needs.
The air is already so poisoned with rumors and doubts and stories about conspiracies and plots and counterplots.
I am an investigator for the House Committee on Assassination Conspiracies and Attempts.
Orval Creel, chairman of the House Committee on Assassination Conspiracies and Attempts, in parentheses (CACA).
He did not believe that she had secrets or conspiracies against him anymore than he had believed it of me.
The talk of conspiracies was only talk, only surface, only something to say so that Huld would have an excuse to forgive him without despising him utterly.
Money itself doesn’t talk, but in conspiracies we must all remember what Benjamin Franklin said.
And all the other brilliant conspiracies built by the worst compromise the conspirators could think of, which have dazzled the American electorate over the decades.
And whereas the ‘Change-men made common cause to buy shares in sailing-ships or joint stock companies, and traded Jamaica sugar for Spanish silver, these men were transacting diverse small conspiracies or trading snatches of courtly data.
On watch-night too, the burghers and their vrouws as well as the civic and military dignitaries of the town had plenty to do to think on their own enjoyment and the entertainment of their friends: they certes were not on the look-out for conspiracies and dangerous enemies within their gates.
Something of his friend's enthusiasm was also coursing through his veins, but with him it was only the enthusiasm of ambition, of discontent, of a passion for intrigue, for plots and conspiracies, for tearing down one form of government in order to make room for another — but his enthusiasm was not kept at fever-heat by that all-powerful fire of hate which made Stoutenburg forget everything save his desire for revenge.