COUNTERPLOTTED

COUNTERPLOT

counterplot

(verb) make a plot in response to another plot

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

counterplotted

simple past tense and past participle of counterplot

Source: Wiktionary


COUNTERPLOT

Coun`ter*plot" (koun`tr-plt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterplotted;p. pr. & vb. n. Counterplotting.]

Definition: 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.

Coun"ter*plot` (koun"tr-plt`), n.

Definition: A plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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