'Conspiracies' definitions:
Definition of 'Conspiracies'
From: GCIDE
- Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See Conspiration.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. --2 Kings xiv. 19. [1913 Webster]
- I had forgot that foul conspiracy
- Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. [1913 Webster]
- A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (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.
- Syn: Combination; plot; cabal. [1913 Webster]