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enginery|ˈɛndʒɪnərɪ, -nrɪ|
Forms: 7 en-, inginarie, 7–8 enginry, 7– enginery.
[f. engine n. + -ery; cf. It. ingegneria (which may be the source), OF. engignerie.]
†1. The art of constructing ‘engines’ (cf. senses of engine n.); also, the art of the (military) engineer. Also attrib. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §2 Astronomie, Cosmographie, Architecture, Inginarie and diuers others. [The corresponding passage De Augm. iii. vi. has machinaria.] 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. ix. 20 Some Enginarie aide must bee assistant to mount the water by Screwes, Pullies, Poizes. 1644Howell Engl. Teares in Harl. Misc. (Malh) V. 444 Nor can all thy elaborate circumvallations, and trenches, or any art of enginery, keep him [famine] out of thy line of communication. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 25 The Irish..had [no] Architecture, Enginery, Painting, Carving, nor any kind of Manufacture.
2. Engines collectively; apparatus, machinery. Frequent in fig. use.
1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 261 A feeble Aid! Dedalian Engin'ry. 1774Johnson Diary 20 Sept. in Boswell xlvi, Boulton..led us through his shops—I could not distinctly see his enginery. c1840Thirlwall in Rem. (1878) III. 1 The enginery of war is often brought out. 1851Tennyson Ode Internat. Exhib. iii. 6 Harvest-tool and husbandry, Loom and wheel and enginery. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 747 An animal is a self-propagating piece of enginery.
fig.a1763Shenstone Economy Wks. (1764) I. 320 The fraudful engin'ry of Rome. 1844R. Chambers Vest. Creat., Early Hist. Man, A complete social enginery for the securing of life and property.
b. esp. Engines of war, artillery. Chiefly poet. or rhetorical. Also fig.
1641Milton Ch. Discip. ii. (1851) 54 The impregnable situation of our Liberty and Safety, that laught such weake enginry to scorn. 1667― P.L. vi. 553 In hollow Cube Training his devilish Enginrie. 1708J. Philips Cyder (1807) 57 The loud disploded roar Of brazen enginry. 1764Grainger Sugar Cane ii. 322 Not all the brazen engineries of man, At once exploded, the wild burst surpass. 1839Thirlwall Greece VI. xlix. 162 His enginery soon made a breach in the wall.
3. The work of an engine, the application of engine-power. Also fig.
1804Ann. Rev. II. 370 The article..incurs a smaller charge for the wages of enginery.
fig.1838Sterling in Carlyle Life ii. vii. (1872) 146 A few drawings,—all with the stamp of his [Michael Angelo's] enginery upon them. |