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machinator|ˈmækɪneɪtə(r)|
[a. L. māchinātor, agent-n. f. māchinārī to contrive, machinate.]
One who contrives or schemes; a contriver, intriguer, plotter, schemer; usually in bad sense.
1611Cotgr., Machinateur, a machinator, framer, deuiser, (especially of bad things). 1627H. Burton Baiting Pope's Bull 26 Their art infernall,..infused into them by that..chiefe machinator of all mischiefe. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) II. 152 Not only escape the ruin meditated against him, but also retort it on the machinators. 1839I. Taylor Anc. Chr. I. Pref. 7 Certain wary machinators around us. 1862Latham Channel Isl. iii. xvi. (ed. 2) 381 There were intrigues and divisions of all sorts: Lord Digby being the chief machinator. 1892Pall Mall G. 3 May 2/2 The machinators of the Union..destroyed nearly every document bearing on that shameful transaction. |