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.
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Plot (plt), 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.