Conspiring ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] That conspires; plotting, acting in concert, etc.

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1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 148. The conspiring voyce of the people.

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1647. H. More, Song of Soul, I. II. cix. Your conspiring minds exactly agree.

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1730–6. Bailey (folio), Conspiring Powers (in Mechanicks) are all such as act in direction not opposite to one another.

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1753. N. Torriano, Gangr. Sore Throat, 57. What a multitude of conspiring Causes!

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1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), I. vi. 228. The conspiring sovereigns who form the Holy Alliance.

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