| 单词 | evil engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevil engine a. Ingenuity, artfulness; cunning, trickery. Also with modifying word, as evil engine, false engine: evil machination, ill intention; cf. malengine n. a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] listOE wiþercraftc1175 wilta1230 craftc1275 sleightc1275 engine?a1300 quaintisec1300 vaidiec1325 wilec1374 cautelc1375 sophistryc1385 quaintnessc1390 voisdie1390 havilon?a1400 foxeryc1400 subtletyc1400 undercraftc1400 practic?a1439 callidityc1450 policec1450 wilinessc1450 craftiness1484 gin1543 cautility1554 cunning1582 cautelousness1584 panurgy1586 policy1587 foxshipa1616 cunningnessa1625 subdolousness1635 dexterity1656 insidiousnessa1677 versuteness1685 pawkiness1687 sleight-hand1792 pawkery1820 vulpinism1851 downiness1865 foxiness1875 slimness1899 slypussness1908 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [noun] > intention of evil engine?a1300 malenginea1393 male entente1440 false enginea1500 α. β. 1629 B. Jonson in J. Beaumont Bosworth-field sig. a1v All muniments of praise, That Art, or Ingine, on the strength can raise.?a1300 St. Eustace (Digby) l. 288 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 217 (MED) Hy wenten to hoere inne..Wiþouten vuel enginne. c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 2003 (MED) Ac now icham from him ifare Þourȝ godes grace & min engyn. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2438 Tho wommen were of great engyn. a1500 Partonope of Blois (Rawl. Poet.) (1862) App. l. 1440* Thought his counsell was fals engyne. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 20 (MED) I am the sone of the enmy that begiled my moder with engyn. a1535 T. More Hist. Edw. V (1641) 2 By what crafty engin he first attempted his ungracious purpose. 1557 Malory's Story Noble & Worthy Kynge Arthur (Copland) iv. xii Brought to the purpose by fals engyn and treason and by false enchauntement. 1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 768 This city which every way is exceeding regular, as the engine of a most excellent Contriver or Plotter can invent. 1689 Irish Hudibras 5 And after long and tedious ranging, By help of Mathematick Engine, A Setting-pole the cunning Rogues Brought from the Fleet to leap the Bogs. < as lemmas |
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