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Complot

//ˈkɒmˌplɒt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy archaic

    "LOR. Now to confirme the complot 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To plot together; conspire. ambitransitive, archaic

    "BOLINGBROKE. […] 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."

  2. 2
    engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).

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