Brigue - What does it mean?
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(obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
* 1704': we think it very unbecoming our prudence that the determination should be remitted to the authors themselves; when our adversaries, by '''briguing and caballing, have caused so niversal a defection from us, that the greater part of our society has already deserted to them — Jonathan Swift, ''A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
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