Hypertext Webster Gateway: "counterplot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Counterplot \Coun`ter*plot"\ (koun`t?r-pl?t"), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. {Counterplotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Counterplotting}.]
To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to
frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been
counterplotted. --De Quinsey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Counterplot \Coun"ter*plot`\ (koun"t?r-pl?t`), n.
A plot or artifice opposed to another. --L'Estrange.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
counterplot
n : a plot intended to subvert another plot
v : make a plot in response to another plot
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