connive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

   “I might say, / That who despairs, acts; that who acts, connives / With God's relations set in time and space; [...]”

2. fiil Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.

   “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, [...]”

3. fiil Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.

   “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, [...]”

4. fiil To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

   “The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye, and, in a word, the whole practice of political grimace.”