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Complot is a related term of confederate.


As nouns the difference between complot and confederate

is that complot is (archaic) a plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy while confederate is a supporter or resident of the confederate states of america.

As a verb complot

is (archaic) to plot.

As an adjective confederate is

of or relating to the confederate states of america.

complot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
  • * (Thomas Kyd), (The Spanish Tragedie) , :
    • LOR. Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast
    Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch,
    Vpon precise commandement from the king
    Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano
    This night shall murder haples Serberine.
  • * (William Shakespeare), (Titus Andronicus), :
    • AARON: / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,
    Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
    Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,
    Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd: /

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (archaic) To plot.
  • * 1597 , :
    • BOLINGBROKE. Besides, I say and will in battle prove,
    Or here, or elsewhere to the furthest verge
    That ever was survey'd by English eye,
    That all the treasons for these eighteen years
    Complotted and contrived in this land,
    Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.

    Derived terms

    * complotment * complotter

    Related terms

    * plot ----

    confederate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a member of a confederacy
  • an accomplice in a plot
  • * Macaulay
    • He found some of his confederates in gaol.
  • (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
  • banded together; allied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

    Quotations

    * , Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12 *: Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, *: Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To combine into a confederacy.
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