conspiracy

UK /kənˈspɪɹəsi/ US /kənˈspɪɹəsi/
noun 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.

Conspiracies, like all other exercises of human ingenuity, are of very different kinds. The gloomy plots arranged in old Italian halls...

And you may have noticed that those who are too quick to shout 'conspiracy theorist' are equally swift, when consequences for authority and consensus impend, to look serious and say 'It's more complicated than that.' These have become standard damage-control reflexes.

2

An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.

3

A secret agreement to do something.

The former programme of the entertainments, which were to result from this generous conspiracy to assist a man whom fortune had buffeted, was eagerly looked for, not only for the reunion of old favorites that it promised to bring about, but out of sympathy for the sentiment which has prompted this graceful act of kindness.

On another occasion, some months later, when Currita's birthday, the 10th of October, and feast of St. Francis Borgia, was approaching, the two children were plotting together a conspiracy to give their mother a surprise.

4

An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.

But this I call civil life […] living [together] in good and politic order, one ever ready to do good to another, and as it were conspiring [together] in all virtue and honesty. […] You said right now that this civil life was a politic order and, as it were, a conspiracy in honesty and virtue, […]

You may even find yourself using your new awareness and insight to assist others in their recovery process. A conspiracy to enable others joins the minds of all who seek faces of recovery.

5

A group of ravens.

verb

1

To conspire.

He knew I would come for him when I discovered what he did, so he, he conspiracied to put me in prison.

“What are you two conspiracying about up here?” asked Kira, walking up next to me.

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