connive
suomi-englanti sanakirjaconnive englannista suomeksi
olla osasyyllinen, myöntyä rikokseen, yllyttää rikokseen
metkuilla, suunnitella
Verbi
edesauttaa, myötävaikuttaa, olla osasyyllinen">olla osasyyllinen
connive englanniksi
To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. (defdate)
(RQ:Browning Poems)
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(quote-hansard)
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Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
(quote-book), ''Schott.'' (1834).: ''Hook Sp. Fil.''|title=Historia Filicum; an Exposition on the Nature, Number, and Organography of Ferns,(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Publishers|Macmillan & Co.|year=1875|section=part 2 (General Arrangement and Characteristics of Tribes and Genera,(nb...))|page=227|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJ85AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227|oclc=938394481|passage=This species ... differs from other species of this genus in the upper pinnæ being contracted, which are sinuously lobed, each lacinæ and lobe bearing a sorus, furnished with a nearly orbicular indusium, the free exterior margin of which connives with the margin of the lobe, ...
''Often followed by'' (l): to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
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(quote-book),(nb...)| year=1659| year_published=1671| page=571| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOZBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA571|oclc=435782155| passage=For ſince the affairs of the world have in them the varieties and perplexities beſides, it happens that in ſome caſes men know not how to govern by the ſtricteſt meaſures of religion, becauſe all men will not do their duty upon that account; and therefore laws are not made ... with exact and pureſt meaſures, but in compliance and by neceſſity, not always as well as they ſhould, but as well as they may: and therefore the Civil power is forc'd ſometimes to connive at what it does not approve.
(quote-book)|edition=2nd corrected|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. Parkhurst,(nb...); S. Spring,(nb...); J. Taylor,(nb...), and J. Wyat,(nb...)|year=1695|column=1|oclc=1011883210|passage=Though all this Good be found in thee, I an offended that thou ſo conniveſt at the Hereſie of the falſe Teachers, as to permit ſome of them in your Communion, ...
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for William Taylor,(nb...)|year=1711|section=part II|page=115|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_7xPJo8UggC&pg=PA115|oclc=1102985002|passage=Nor can we reaſonably think, that Chriſt ſo waſhed us from our Sins in his own Blood, that we might wallow more ſecurely in them; or that he freeth us from the Guilt and Puniſhment, and conniveth at the Filth and Practice of them.
(quote-journal)&93;|journal=The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed by Curson Hansard|Thomas Curson Hansard,(nb...) for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; ''et al.''|date=1 December 1783|year_published=1814|volume=XXIII|column=1375|columnurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ix0yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1375|oclc=20121995|passage=That the evils in India have solely arisen from the court of proprietors is grossly false. In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(RQ:Spectator)
(inflection of)