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connive, v.|kəˈnaɪv|
[ad. L. connīvē-re (in cl. period cōnīvēre) to shut the eyes, blink, wink, be dull or drowsy, shut the eyes to crime or wrong, f. con- together + a primitive *nīvēre not found, but app. related to nicĕre to make a sign, nictāre to wink, twinkle the eyelids; cf. F. conniver in same sense, 16th c. in Littré.]
1. intr. To shut one's eyes to a thing that one dislikes but cannot help, to pretend ignorance, to take no notice. Const. at. arch.
1602Carew Cornwall (1811) 412 By means of those villains..the opinion was so rivetted..that his Lordship must at least connive at it. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 9 They must connive in some cases, but may not concede in any. 1718Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. xlix. 64 The grandsigneir connives at the loss of these dominions, for fear of losing even the titles of them. 1732Fielding Mod. Husb. Epil., Husbands most faults, not publick made, connive at; The trip's a trifle—when the frailty's private. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 389 While the Whig party was still formidable, the government thought it expedient occasionally to connive at the violation of this rule.
†b. To shut one's eyes to the faults of, look indulgently at or on. Obs.
1629Massinger Picture iii. ii, Pray you, connive On my weak tenderness. 1646F. Hawkins Youth's Behav. (1663) To Rdr., Gentle Youth, think it not amiss to peruse this Piece, yet connive at the style; for it hath need thereof.
2. To shut one's eyes to an action that one ought to oppose, but which one covertly sympathizes with; to wink at, be secretly privy or accessory. (The ordinary sense.)
1632Brome Novella v. Wks. 1873 I. 162 If you receive the Duccats..pray bring our shares, Wee all connive you know. 1667Decay Chr. Piety (J.), The licentiousness of inferiours, and the remissness of superiours, the one violates and the other connives. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 151 He judges, as all Rome did, that I conniv'd at his death. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Col. Mass. i. 4 He promised to connive. 1840Macaulay Clive 70 To connive at abuses while pretending to remove them. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. xv. (1880) 262 The maritime population..actively connived at their escape.
†3. To wink at (offenders); to look at (a person) with secret sympathy or indulgence. Obs.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iii. 691 Sure the Gods doe this yeere conniue at vs, and we may doe any thing extempore. 1640Order Ho. Com. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) iii. I. 53 Accused for Releasing and Conniving at Popish Priests. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. v. §53 Malefactours protected by the Citizens of Oxford, who..connived at offenders who had done mischiefs to the Scholars. 1749Chesterfield Lett. 21 Aug. (1774) II. 200 You must renounce courts, if you will not connive at knaves and tolerate fools.
b. To have a covert understanding with (a person); to take part or co-operate with privily.
1797E. M. Lomax in Philanthrope No. 28. 222 He will be so vain and conceited as to connive with you. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. ii, Dost thou connive with the wolves in robbing thine own fold? 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 6 Who acts, connives With God's relations set in time and space.
†4. To shut one's eyes from neglect, to neglect to look at, disregard, leave unnoticed. Obs.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 24 An ancient Law..lay long covered in the embers of division between the Houses of York and Lancaster, and forgotten or connived at by the succeeding Princes.
†5. To remain dormant or inactive. Obs. rare. (So in L.) Cf. connivent 2.
1667Milton P.L. x. 624, I suffer them to enter..and conniving seem To gratifie my scornful Enemies. 1671― Samson 465 He, be sure, Will not connive, or linger, thus provoked, But will arise and his great name assert.
†6. To dispense covertly with. Obs. rare.
1623Abp. Williams in Hacket Life i. 178 Those Statutes..are all..in full force, and in Free Execution. Nor were they ever intended to be connived with in the least Syllable.
†7. trans. To wink at, overlook, tacitly permit, pass over (a fault or offence). Obs.
c1608Hieron Discov. Hypocr. Ep. Ded., If your Lordship shall please..to conniue my presuming. 1617― Wks. II. 154 So God conniueth many weakenesses in His deare children. 1643Milton Divorce Ded. (1851) 7 Divorces were not conniv'd only, but with open eye allow'd of old for hardnesse of heart.
†8. intr. To wink (lit. but with allusion to sense 1). Obs. nonce-use.
1712Addison Spect. No. 305 ⁋10 This Artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, to shrug up their shoulders in a dubious case, to connive with either Eye.
9. Nat. Hist. To be connivent (q.v.). rare.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 120 Petals the same number, conniving at the base, or even cohering. |