▪ I. conspiring, vbl. n.
(kənˈspaɪərɪŋ)
[f. conspire + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. conspire; plotting, conspiracy; concurrence, co-operation.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xiii. (1634) 622 What?..doe wee thinke that hee praiseth a conspiring, whereby a few men being bound together, are severed from the whole body of the Church? 1651 Hobbes Govt. & Soc. v. §6. 79 The conspiring of many wills to the same end. 1862 Sir J. B. Burke Viciss. Families Ser. iii. 322 The King..met those conspirings with demonstrations of equal energy. |
▪ II. conˈspiring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That conspires; plotting, acting in concert, etc.
| 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 148 The conspiring voyce of the people. 1647 H. More Song of Soul i. ii. cix, Your conspiring minds exactly agree. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Conspiring Powers (in Mechanicks) are all such as act in direction not opposite to one another. 1753 N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 57 What a multitude of conspiring Causes! 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. vi. 228 The conspiring sovereigns who form the Holy Alliance. |