noun
1. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
• Syn: ↑Titus Oates
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑conspirator, ↑coconspirator, ↑plotter, ↑machinator
2. United States writer (born in 1938)
• Syn: ↑Joyce Carol Oates
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/ohts/, n.
1. Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2. Titus, 1649-1705, English conspirator and Anglican priest: instigator of the Popish Plot scare.
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I [ōts]Joyce Carol (1938 - ) U.S. writer. Her works include Bellefleur (1980), You Must Remember This (1988), Zombie (1995), Man Crazy (1997), Blonde (2000), and The Best American Essays of the Century (2000)
II
Titus (1649 - 1705), English clergyman and conspirator. He is known as the fabricator of the Popish Plot in 1678
Useful english dictionary. 2012.