2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc.,
drawn to a scale.
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now
standeth. --Carew.
I have overheard a plot of death. --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.
The wicked plotteth against the just. --Ps. xxxvii.
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2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone. --Sir H.
Wotton.