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Counterplot
Pronunciation : Coun`ter*plot" (koun`tr-plt")
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Counterplotted;p. pr. & vb. n. Counterplotting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Coun"ter*plot` (koun"tr-plt`)
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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