Con-spir'a-cy, n.

n. [See CONSPIRATION.] 1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit some crime in concert, as treason, sedition, or insurrection; an agreement for the purpose of wrongfully prejudicing another, or to injure public trade, to affect public health, to insult public justice, &c.; a plot. I had forgot that foul conspiracy, Of the beast Caliban and his confederates, Against my life. Shak. 2. A concurrence or general tendency, as of causes or circumstances, to one event. A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things. Sidney. Syn.—Combination; plot; cabal.