[ME. and AF. conspiratour = F. conspirateur, ad. L. conspīrātōrem. The Eng. is now conformed in spelling, but not in pronunciation, to L. conspīrātor.]
One who conspires; one engaged in a conspiracy; one who conspires with others to commit treason.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, III. iv. (1483), 53. Traytours and conspyratours weren with yow enterlacid to geders.
1566. Painter, Pal. Pleas., I. 42. To bewraye the rest of the conspiratours.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., III. ii. 237. Away then, come, seeke the Conspirators.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F. (1869), II. xliii. 612. The conspirators were detected and seized.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Goethe, Wks. (Bohn), I. 392. Like women employed by Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
1848. W. H. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., II. 416. A conspirator succeeds or dies.
