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Webster 1913 Edition
Conspiracy
1.
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
From point to point.
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.
Shakespeare
2.
A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
A
conspiracy
in all heavenly and earthly things. Sir P. Sidney.
Syn. – Combination; plot; cabal.
Webster 1828 Edition
Conspiracy
CONSPIRACY
,Noun.
1.
A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement between two or more persons, to commit some crime in concert; particularly, a combination to commit treason, or excite sedition or insurrection against the government of a state; a plot; as a conspiracy against the life of a king; a conspiracy against the government.More than forty had made this conspiracy. Acts 23.
2.
In law, an agreement between two or more persons, falsely and maliciously to indict, or procure to be indicted, an innocent person of felony.3.
A concurrence; a general tendency of two or more causes to one event.Definition 2024
conspiracy
conspiracy
English
Noun
conspiracy (plural conspiracies)
- The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
- (law) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
- A group of ravens.
- (linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
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Translations
act of working in secret to obtain some goal
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an agreement to break the law
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