intrigue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

   “[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]”

2. isim The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
3. isim Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.

   “I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped [pawned] his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]”

4. fiil To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
5. fiil To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.

   “Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.”

6. fiil To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
7. fiil To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

   “And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.”