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Webster 1913 Edition
Counterplot
Counˊter-plot′
(kounˊt?r-pl?t′)
, Verb.
T.
[
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.
Coun′ter-plotˊ
(koun′tẽr-pl?tˊ)
, Noun.
A plot or artifice opposed to another.
L’Estrange.
Webster 1828 Edition
Counterplot
COUNTERPLOT
,Verb.
T.
COUNTERPLOT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
counterplot
counterplot
English
Noun
counterplot (plural counterplots)
- A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.
Hypernyms
Translations
plot made in opposition to another
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Verb
counterplot (third-person singular simple present counterplots, present participle counterplotting, simple past and past participle counterplotted)
- (intransitive, transitive) To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.
- De Quincey
- Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, chapter vi
- […] for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him.
- De Quincey
Translations
to form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another