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noun

Plot n.

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

A plantation laid out. (Obs.)

(Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

Plot n.

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!"

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."

Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue. (Obs.) "A man of much plot."

A plan; a purpose. "No other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls."

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.

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."

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

... Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass-plot to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess. In the meantime, there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs ...

— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift

... when Pizarro had directed Rocco to kill a prisoner in a certain dungeon, she overheard a good deal of the plot, and she began to fear it might ...

— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

... Yea, that same being who did plot with Cain, that if he would murder his brother Abel it should not be known unto the world. And he did plot with Cain and his followers ...

— The Book Of Mormon - An Account Written By The Hand Of Mormon Upon Plates Taken - From The Plates Of Nephi • Anonymous

... others are slightly sketched out. Among these latter—are Baptistes, on the death of John the Baptist, and Christus Patiens, apparently to be confined to the agony in the garden. Of Paradise Lost there are four drafts in greater detail than any of the others. These drafts of the plot or action, though none of them that which was finally adopted, are sufficiently near to the action of the poem as it stands, to reveal to as the fact that the author's imaginative conception of what he intended ...

— Milton • Mark Pattison

... maybe more than becometh your wife, to win him over. He almost consented, and I declare to you that Livingstone is with us. I could have sworn two days ago that the regiment would have joined us and been waiting for you. But that determined Whig, Captain Balfour, discovered the plot, and I had a message yesterday afternoon that it was hopeless. So for fear of arrest I hurried to Glenogilvie, and tried to intercept your coming. Blame not me, for I could do no more—and what mean you by calling me ever by my title and not ...

— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren

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