Dictionary entry

Conspire

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐spire″ (kŏn‐spīr″), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Conspired (–spīrd″); p. pr. & vb. n.Conspiring.] [F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit.] 1. To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

They conspired against to slay him.

Gen. xxxvii. 18.

You have conspired against our royal person,

Joined with an enemy proclaimed.

Shak.

2. To concur to one end; to agree.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage

Conspire to censure and expose our age.

Roscommon.

Syn. — To unite; concur; complot; confederate; league.