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noun

Conspiracy n. (pl. conspiracies)

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." "They made a conspiracy against (Amaziah)." "I had forgot that foul conspiracy" "Of the beast Caliban and his confederates."

A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. "A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things."

(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.

Synonyms: Combination; plot; cabal.

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"Conspiracy" Quotes from Famous Books

... men of Hanahouua to descend on Oi, a little village by the sea between here and Oomoa. They had guns of a sort, for the whalers had brought old and rusty guns to trade with the Marquesans for wood, fruit, and fish. Frere Fesal learned of the conspiracy, but the men were drinking rum, and he was helpless. The warriors went stealthily over the mountains and at night lowered themselves from the cliffs with ropes made of the fau. There were only thirty people left in Oi, and the enemy came upon them ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. In short, our commercial-romantic pilgrimage began to meet with unexpected resistance. It was as though the nation were entering into a senseless conspiracy ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... from the bench that "Anarchists, Socialists and Communists were as pernicious and unjustifiable as horse thieves," and, finally, in charging the jury, that even though the state had not proved that any of the eight men on trial had actually thrown the bomb, they were nevertheless guilty of a conspiracy ...

— Labor's Martyrs • Vito Marcantonio

... along forced from it's Natural Bent. Every where inclin'd and leaning to a different Temper; yet is no where wholly carry'd off, or alter'd, as in Venice-Preserv'd; Jaffeir's Temper is generous, faithful, and tender, but thro' Want and Enticement being drawn into a Conspiracy, this Temper is half effac'd in him: But the Strugglings which the Poet has so fine an Opportunity of describing, between his present Actions and his natural Temper, are carry'd thro' the whole Piece; and he condemn's ...

— A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) • Thomas Purney

... the valley of Uri, near Altorf, and this he named Zwing Uri ("Uri's Restraint"). He used every means that cruelty or avarice could suggest in his conduct as governor, and incurred additional hatred from the methods he adopted to discover the members of a secret conspiracy he believed existed against him in the district. With this object in view, Gessler caused a pole, surmounted with the ducal cap of Austria, to be set up in the market-place at Altorf, before which emblem of authority he ordered every man to uncover and do reverence ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

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