Plot , v. t. To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
"Plotting an unprofitable crime." Dryden. "Plotting now the fall
of others." Milton
Plot (pl&obreve;t), v. i. 1.
To form a
scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
Shak.
The wicked plotteth against the just.
Ps. xxxvii. 12.
2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.
Sir H. Wotton.
Plot , n. [Abbrev. from complot.]
1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house
Plot.
I have overheard a
plot of death.
Shak. O, think what
anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
Addison. 2. A share in such
a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
[Obs.]
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery,
it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
Milton.
3. Contrivance; deep reach of
thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [Obs.] "A man of much
plot." Denham.
4. A plan;
a purpose. "No other plot in their religion but serve God
and save their souls." Jer. Taylor.
5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as
springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable
consequence of all that went
before.
Pope. Syn. -- Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance.
Plot , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plotted (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Plotting.]
To make
a plot, map,
pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
This treatise plotteth down
Cornwall as it now standeth.
Carew.
Plot (?), n. [AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch. Cf. Plat a piece of ground.]
1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
Shak.
2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
3. (Surv.)
A plan or
draught of a field, farm,
estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
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