† enginistn.
Obsolete.
An engineer (in various senses).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun]
engineera1500
enginist1579
mechanician1621
mechanic1662
machinist1706
civil engineer1763
mechanist1806
machine-maker1813
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 45 The great fame of Archymedes, & other notable enginistes [It. inuentori].
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin v. 247 The Pisans..had..certeine ingenists [It. ingegnieri] to dresse their fortifications.
1606 T. Dekker Double PP sig. D1 To be Arch-Enginist to Lucifer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1579- make out one's case
- make out one's market
- make over
- make pain
- make palaver
- make parade of
- make parch of
- make pausation
- make pay a vow
- make peace
- make peasing
- make penance
- make penny of
- make perfect sense
- make petition
- make phrase
- make place
- make placebo
- make places
- make plain
- make plain with the earth
- make planetfall
- make play
- make play of
- make play with