Word Meanings - SCHEMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley.

GUILTLESS
1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted . Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton.
GUILTINESS
The quality or state of being guilty.
PLOTTER
One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden.
INTRIGUER
One who intrigues.
GUILTILY
In a guilty manner.
PROJECTOR
One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
INTRIGUERY
Arts or practice of intrigue.
GUILT-SICK
Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.
GUILT
signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, 1. The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from
GUILTY
1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered
GUILTYLIKE
Guiltily. Shak.
INGUILTY
Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
AGUILT
To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. Chaucer.
BLOODGUILTY
Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness (, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.
COMPLOTTER
One joined in a plot. Dryden.