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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Counterplot \Coun'ter*plot"\ (koun't?r-pl?t"), verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Counterplot \Coun"ter*plot'\ (koun"t[~e]r-pl?t'), noun A plot or artifice opposed to another. --L'Estrange. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: noun 1: a plot intended to subvert another plot [syn: {counterplan}] verb 1: make a plot in response to another plot [also: {counterplotting}, {counterplotted}] |
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