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Plot   /plɑt/   Listen
noun
Plot  n.  
1.
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
2.
A plantation laid out. (Obs.)
3.
(Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.


Plot  n.  
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." "O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!"
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."
3.
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue. (Obs.) "A man of much plot."
4.
A plan; a purpose. "No other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls."
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."
Synonyms: Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance.


verb
Plot  v. t.  (past & past part. plotted; pres. part. 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."


Plot  v. t.  To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. "Plotting an unprofitable crime." "Plotting now the fall of others."


Plot  v. i.  
1.
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. "The wicked plotteth against the just."
2.
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. "The prince did plot to be secretly gone."





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"Plot" Quotes from Famous Books



... something so iniquitous and unmanly in betraying the unsuspecting and lovely victim, that the feelings of the valet, though far from being refined, revolted from the participation: once or twice he had even resolved to acquaint Theodora with the premeditated plot, but these momentary impulses of his better feelings were soon checked for want of strength to follow up the generous suggestion. The awe with which Roque beheld his master, and the dread of the results which his disclosure ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio
... consider it an indignity to be ranked among the number. I am told she is growing with might and main, and is determined not to stop until she is a woman outright. I would give all the money in my pocket to be with those dear little women at the round table in the saloon, or on the grass-plot in the garden, to tell them some ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... to one constituted like Judith, and contributed to aid her self-possession, quite as much as it fed her vanity. Smiling involuntarily, or in spite of her wish to seem reserved, she proceeded in her plot. ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper
... except the election of these, who by this means became an hereditary aristocracy or senatorian order of nobility. This was that course which came afterward to be the destruction of Rome, and had now ruined Athens. The nobility, according to the inevitable nature of such a one, having laid the plot how to divest the people of the result, and so to draw the whole power of the commonwealth to themselves; which in all likelihood they had done, if the people, coming by mere chance to be victorious in the battle of Plataea, and famous for defending Greece against the Persians, ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington
... it please you to give your royal warrant to the bearer of this letter, and to address the same to such of your subjects in Dunwich as you may think good, I doubt not but that men can be found to execute the same. Thus would a great and traitorous plot be brought to nothing, to your own glory and the discomfiture of your foes in France, who hope to lay their murderous hands upon the throne of England. "Your ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard


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