brigue
See also: brigué
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹiːɡ/
Noun
brigue (plural brigues)
- (obsolete) Intrigue; secretive machinations.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chesterfield to this entry?)
Verb
brigue (third-person singular simple present brigues, present participle briguing, simple past and past participle brigued)
- (obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
- We think it very unbecoming our prudence that the determination should be remitted to the authors themselves; when our adversaries, by briguing and caballing, have caused so universal a defection from us, that the greater part of our society has already deserted to them.
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
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