the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun]
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1957) i. Prol. l. 4 Virgill..Gem of engyne [?1553 ingyne] and flude of eloquens.
c1550 (1979) 3 Be ane diuyne miracle, rather nor be the ingyne of men.
1562 N. Winȝet (1888) I. 5 Pure studentis of ryche ingynis.
c1620 W. Mure xx. 11 The puir issues of my weak ingyne.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 65 Hir for to treit thai sett thair haill ingyne.
1632 W. Lithgow (1682) ix. 379 High Press thy [sc. Etna's] Flames..But higher moves the scope of my Engine.
1713 J. Donaldson 14 Great Trees and Planks thou by thy great Ingine Together Joins [sic], as by Command Divine.
1786 R. Burns 198 A' that ken't him round declar'd, He had ingine.
1820 W. Scott III. xi. 291 A man of quick ingine and deep wisdom.
1827 W. Tennant 17 And I na help their weak ingyne Wi' my suggestions strang?
1928 6 14 Gi'e me social injine, herts couthie an' kin', Nae maitter hoo laich their degree, man.
1967 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ (1978) II. 1424 The treasures o' human ingyne emerge And oor inspiration is aye relit.
1994 W. N. Herbert 64 Thi wean unsoucht as yet But waitin oan Yir wame's ingyne.