Meanings (ES + gloss)
confabular • conspirar
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; [...]
This very Law of Libel provides that "if any one connives with a guilty man and alleges him to be innocent, he renders himself liable to punishment."
hacerse el leso
Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
A nation of hardy archers and spearmen might, with small risk to its liberties, connive at some illegal acts on the part of a prince whose general administration was good, and whos…
That the evils in India have solely arisen from the court of proprietors is grossly false. In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were enco…