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enginery

noun
/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

Etymology

From engine + -ry.

  1. derived from ingenium
  2. derived from engin
  3. derived from engine
  4. inherited from engyn
  5. suffixed as enginery — “engine + ry”

Definitions

  1. Machinery made up of engines

    Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.

    • Training his devilish enginery.

  2. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

    • [B]ehold / Not diſtant far with heavie pace the Foe / Approaching groſs and huge; in hollow Cube / Training his deviliſh Enginrie, impal'd / On every ſide with ſhaddowing Squadrons Deep, / To hide the fraud.

  3. Any device or contrivance

    Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

    • To play some image on the gaping crowd, Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose, Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome
    • 'Mid that hush of soul Music from viewless harps shall visit thee, Such as thou never heard'st amid the din Of earth's coarse enginery, by toil and care Urged on, without reprieve.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA