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Plotted

adjective

Planned in advance. Synonyms: aforethought, planned.

Plot

verb

(past & past part. plotted; pres. part. plotting)

Plan secretly, usually something illegal.

Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed. Synonym: diagram.

Make a plat of. Synonym: plat.

Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet).

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"Plotted" Quotes from Famous Books

... was almost identical. Chiefly toward this end he sought to promote working-class organization, although he also believed that the working classes would eventually gain control of the entire State and, through it, reorganize production. He agitated for universal suffrage and even plotted with Bismarck to obtain it. He was confident that an industrial revolution was inevitable. The change "will either come in complete legality," he said, "and with all the blessings of peace—if people ...

— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... the "wildest" forecast of propriety—propriety to all the particular conditions—could have figured it. I had seen Santa Maria della Pieve and its campanile of quaint colonnades, the stately, dusky cathedral—grass-plotted and residenced about almost after the fashion of an English "close"—and John of Pisa's elaborate marble shrine; I had seen the museum and its Etruscan vases and majolica platters. These were very well, but the old pacified citadel somehow, through ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... whispered, hoarsely, throwing his mask aside. "Do you think I have plotted and worked all these years for nothing? Not much! All that property is mine, do you hear? Nobody else shall ever own a foot of it. Now, I'll tell you what I am willing to do. I'll give you a hundred dollars in cash and we'll call ...

— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill

... extensive reading. That Vergil ranged widely and deeply in philosophy and history, antiquities and all the world's best prose and poetry, the vast learning of the Georgics and the Aeneid abundantly proves. The epic story which he had early plotted out must have lain very near the threshold of his consciousness through this period, for his mind kept seizing upon and storing up apposite incidents and germs of fruitful lore. References to Aeneas crop out here and there in the Georgics, and the mysterious address ...

— Vergil - A Biography • Tenney Frank

... granted to themselves, for their own purposes, twenty thousand pounds out of the royal revenues; met and utterly routed a little band raised by the Duke of Ireland with the object of rescuing the sovereign from their power; impeached those members of the Council who were loyalists and Lollards; plotted to murder the King and the whole Council, which included near blood relations of their own; prohibited the possession of any of Wycliffe's books under severe penalties; murdered three, and banished two, of the five ...

— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt

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