Verb

(conspir)

To secretly plot or make plans together, often used regarding something bad or illegal.

* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 18

They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.

To agree, to concur to one end.

* Roscommon

The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.

* 1744 , , act 3, scene 5

I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire

To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.

To try to bring about.

* Bishop Hall

Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.

Verb

(emulat)

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}

(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device