Conspire: c.1300, from O.Fr. conspirer, from L. conspirare "to agree, unite, plot," lit. "to breathe together," from com- "together" + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). Conspiracy is from 1386; conspiracy theory is from 1909.
November 13, 2003
Conspiracies, theories of existence, and mathematical correlations.
Note to self: do not buy the boy any thing with a pixelated screen.