Word Meanings - CONSPIRACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. Syn. -- Combination; plot; cabal. (more info) 1. A combination of

Additional info about word: CONSPIRACY

An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. Syn. -- Combination; plot; cabal. (more info) 1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; as agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot. When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point. Chaucer. They made a conspiracy against . 2 Kings xiv. 19. I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. Shak. 2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSPIRACY)

• Cabal
• Confederacy
• conspiracy
• combination
• coterie
• gang
• faction
• plot
• junto
• league
• Intrigue
• machination
• artifice
• design
• manoeuvres
• cunning
• duplicity
• trickery
• chicanery
• love affair
• amour
• ruse
• Machination
• Contrivance
• intrigue
• stratagem
• artful scheme

Related words: (words related to CONSPIRACY)

• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• CONFEDERACY
  A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn. -- League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation. (more info) 1. A league or compact between
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• CABALISM
  1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• LEAGUE
  lieue, Pr. lega, legua, It. & LL. lega, Sp. legua, Pg. legoa, legua; all fr. LL. leuca, of Celtic origin: cf. Arm. leo, lev (perh. from French), Ir.leige ; also Ir. & Gael. leac a flag, a broad, flat stone, W. llech, -- such stones having perh.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• INTRIGUER
  One who intrigues.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• CABALLERIA
  An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• CABALA
  1. A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number,
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• BELEAGUERER
  One who beleaguers.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• FLORAMOUR
  The plant love-lies-bleeding. Prior.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• AREFACTION
  The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.
• UNDERFACTION
  A subordinate party or faction.