Now rare. Also 6 complote. [a. F. complot-er, f. complot: see prec.]
1. intr. To combine in a plot; to plot together.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 531/2. They … are companions to the wicked & haue comploted with them.
1598. Rowlands, Betray. Christ, 19. When she [Jezebel] complotted for good Naboths ground.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXIX. i. They haue complotted and sworne one to another, for to murder all Barbarians.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 52. He assured himselfe of … the Empire which he then complotted for.
1681. H. More, in Glanvill, Sadducismus, 10. Complotting with Sharp to murder her.
1704. E. Ward, Dissenting Hyp., 74. The Gang Complotted more than once.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Sonn., Stanhope. The train That sit complotting with rebellious pride.
2. trans. To combine in planning or plotting (some act, usually criminal): to concert covertly.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. i. 96. All the Treasons … Complotted, and contriued in this Land. Ibid., I. iii. 189. To plot, contriue, or complot any ill.
1607. R. Coke, Charge Norwich Assizes, 21. There was complotted another Spanish inuasion.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. I. App. (1852), 344. The Narragansett Indians had complotted the ruine of the English.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., X. 733. Craft, greed and violence complot revenge.
Hence Complotted ppl. a., concerted.
1594. J. Dickenson, Arisbas (1878), 78. Complotted practises of bloud and reuenge.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Pordage’s Myst. Div., 63. By their so complotted commixture.
