| 释义 |
‖ ˈmachina Obs.
Pl. machinas.
[L. māchina machine.]
= machine in various senses.
1612Shelton Quix. i. v. I. 32 The Labourer grew almost mad for Anger to hear that Machina of Follies. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. 11. 97 So great a Machina, and such a masse of things. 1640H. Glapthorne Hollander iv. G 3, If I doe not second you confidently, may my tongue be cramped,..and the machina of my invention ruind perpetually. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xi. (1712) 124 To assert that Animals themselves were Machinas. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 220 One poor unthought of accident..breaks all to shivers the whole elaborate Machina. |