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1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 30 Oft when we are most busie tampering, Some foes to trap within our plotted snares.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis v. vii. 351 With wondrous confidence..he..begun his plotted Tale.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Davids Psalms Metaphr. vii. 17 in Wks. (1808) X. 268 Back to his owne head shall rebound His plotted mischiefe.

a1701 C. Sedley Tyrant of Crete iv. iii By miracle I scap'd thy plotted Mischiefs.

1720 N. Amhurst Familiar Epist. from Tunbridge-Wells 4 But know, my Friend, forsaken as I seem, Heav'n of my Foes hath broke the plotted Scheme.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. vi. 418 Him they taxed with the plotted massacre, and the bill was a true one.

1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris I. 171 They [sc. the Greeks] slip out of the [Trojan] horse, and take their plotted ways.

1951 A. G. Mazour Russia Past & Present xv. 339 The terrorists finally succeeded in their long-plotted scheme—a bomb tore Alexander II to pieces.

1988 M. Charney Hamlet's Fictions ii. v. 72 The structural ‘leap’ in Hamlet occurs when he providentially escapes his plotted death in England and returns from the sea voyage.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. Illustr. 98 Plow-shares for describing the content of plotted Cities.

1884 Times 7 Nov. 2/5 Sir Rawson's paper is accompanied by carefully plotted maps.

1895–6 Cal. Univ. Nebraska 134 A plotted chart of measurements is furnished to each student desiring it, at the cost of the price of the chart.

1932 Polit. Sci. Q. 47 180 The diagram demonstrates no such prognosticative sensitivity, the plotted points being scattered over the chart with little rhyme or reason.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 521/2 The plotted line joining procoagulant AHF and AHF-like antigen values did not go through the origin of the graph.

2003 M. Kraak & F. Ormeling Cartography (ed. 2) vi. 105/1 It might be problematical to convert the additive colours from the monitor into subtractive colours on a printed or plotted map.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 153 My death..is made the Prologue to their Play: For thousands more..Will not conclude their plotted Tragedie. View more context for this quotation]

1704 T. D'Urfey Tales Pref. sig. aj^v The plotted Drama.

1909 H. S. Canby Short Story in Eng. vii. 123 The dramatic value of these realistic, vivid, admirably plotted narratives became evident.

1930 Decatur (Illinois) Evening Herald 27 Oct. The various aspects of using plotted stories in comic strips.

1978 Broadcast 28 Aug. 8/1 Plays which were both tightly plotted and eminently actable.

2003 Independent 24 Oct. (Review section) 27/1 It's Krabbe's strong characters and dialogue..that makes this cleverly plotted story more than just another imported chiller.