Conspiracy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.

II. Conspiracy ·noun A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

III. Conspiracy ·noun An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.