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Quick definitions (complot)
verb: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: [sup]1[/sup]com·plot
Pronunciation: 'käm-"plät
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French complot crowd, plot
archaic : PLOT, CONSPIRACY
Main Entry: [sup]2[/sup]com·plot
Pronunciation: k&m-'plät, käm-
Function: verb
archaic : PLOT
1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
PLOT, a term originally meaning a space of ground used for a specific purpose, especially as a building site, formerly in frequent usage in the sense of a plan, a surveyed space of ground; hence the literary sense of a plan or design. The word is of doubtful origin; there is a collateral form "plat," which appears in the 16th century, according to the New English Dictionary, under the influence of "plat," flat place, surface (Fr. plat, Late Lat. plattus, probably from Gr. 7rXarin, broad). Skeat (Etym. Did.) refers "plot," in the sense of a space of ground, to the O. Eng. plaec, Mid. Eng. Aleck, later platch, patch. "Plot," in the sense of plan, scheme, would then be identical with "plot," a conspiracy, which may be a shortened form of "complot," a French word, also of doubtful origin, meaning in the 12th century "a compact body of men"; in the 14th century "conspiracy."