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machinate, v.|ˈmækɪneɪt|
Also 7 machinat.
[f. L. māchināt-, ppl. stem of māchinārī to contrive, f. māchina machine.]
1. intr. To lay plots; to intrigue, scheme.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 243 Such persons as shall machinate and deuise to execute such outragious designements against their prince. 1689Def. Liberty agst. Tyrants 130 A Tyrant conspires, machinates, and lays his plots and practises. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 101 The blackest treason may lurk and machinate at his very threshold. 1858Faber Bartoli & Maffei's Life Xavier 312 Whilst the Portuguese had been preparing for their departure, the bonzes had been machinating against them.
2. trans. To contrive, plan, plot. Now rare.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parallel 23 Dolus bonus, is when a man doth machinate or deuise anie thing to entrap a thiefe, or a traytour. 1643Prynne Romes Masterpeece 14 He thought fit, that a desperate Treason, machinated against so many soules was to be revealed. 1651Howell Venice 187 Which makes Urban the 8...to machinat violent means for to invest his Nephews in another Princes Estate. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 122 The..robberies, massacres, and assassinations, that the violent machinate against the peaceful. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 359 [He] injures himself in a greater degree than he injures him against whom he machinates destruction. |