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(kounˊt?r-pl?t′)

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Counterplotted

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Counterplotting

To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been

counterplotted

De Quinsey.

(koun′tẽr-pl?tˊ)

Noun.

A plot or artifice opposed to another.

L’Estrange.

Verb.

[counter and plot.] To oppose one plot to another; to attempt to frustrate stratagem by stratagem.

Noun.

A plot or artifice opposed to another.