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Plotted   /plˈɑtəd/  /plˈɑtɪd/   Listen
Plotted

adjective
1.
Planned in advance.  Synonyms: aforethought, planned.


Plot

verb
(past & past part. plotted; pres. part. plotting)
1.
Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
2.
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.  Synonym: diagram.
3.
Make a plat of.  Synonym: plat.
4.
Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet).



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"Plotted" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make her home in New York, but first she visited Susan who found her as stimulating as ever and brimful of ideas. They plotted and planned as of old and managed to stir up public opinion on the question of admitting women to the University of Rochester. With women enrolled at the University of Michigan since 1870, and at Cornell since 1872, and with Columbia University yielding at ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz
... stood quite still among the dark-green shrubs, and no sound told of the deadly strife and despair. Would he see Rex and divulge the crime she had planned? Ah! who would believe she, the proud, petted heiress had plotted so cruelly against the life of an innocent young girl because she found favor in the eyes of the lover she had sworn to win? Ah! who could believe she had planned to confine that sweet young life within the walls of a mad-house until ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... lorded it over the old nobility. By their intrigues they soon obtained an order from the king for her removal from Copenhagen, and for the apprehension of Struensee and Brandt: it being represented that they had plotted together and were about to depose him. It was on the night of the 16th of January that the faction put their conspiracy into execution. Struensee and Brandt were suddenly seized, cast into prison, and after undergoing ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... Italian princes, moreover, showed themselves to be heartily in sympathy with the hated Austria. Popular discontent spread throughout the peninsula and led to the formation of numerous secret societies, which assumed strange names, practiced mysterious rites, and plotted darkly in the name of Italian liberty and independence. By far the most noted of these associations was that of the Carbonari, i.e., charcoal burners. Its objects were individual liberty, constitutional government, and national ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... woman of the hour in Washington, lately frowned on by the ladies as too beautiful, talked about by the gentlemen as too cold, discussed by some, adored by others, understood by none, dreaded by some high in power, plotted against by others yet more high ...
— The Purchase Price • Emerson Hough


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