单词 | machinate |
释义 | machinatev.ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot (a purpose) or hatch (a plot [verb (transitive)] compass1297 procurec1300 purchasec1300 contrivec1330 conspirec1384 brewc1386 awaitc1400 surmise1509 devisec1515 practise1531 machinate1537 forge1547 hatch1565 plot1589 pack1590 appost1602 feign1690 intrigue1747 scheme1767 1537 R. Pole Let. 2 May in G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1715) III. iii. 126 Ytt is not for Ignorance that I knowe not what is machinate ageinst me. 1592 in A. I. Cameron Warrender Papers (1932) II. 180 Nathing that shalbe machinat or attemptid aganis me. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 23 Dolus bonus, is when a man doth machinate or deuise anie thing to entrap a thiefe, or a traytour. 1643 W. Prynne Romes Master-peece 14 He thought fit, that a desperate Treason, machinated against so many soules was to be revealed. 1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 187 Which makes Urban the 8..to machinat violent means for to invest his Nephews in another Princes Estate. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 288 The..robberies, massacres, and assassinations, that the violent machinate against the peaceful. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 359 [He] injures himself in a greater degree than he injures him against whom he machinates destruction. 2. intransitive. To plot; to intrigue or scheme (usually with hostile or malicious intent). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)] subtlec1300 conspire1393 compass1430 malign?a1439 contrivec1440 machine?c1450 forthink1494 pretenda1500 practise1537 pack1568 brigue1580 machinate1602 manage1603 plot1607 tamper1607 faction1609 collogue1646 intriguea1714 to lay a scheme1826 scheme1842 angle1892 wheel and deal1961 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > machinate machinate1602 tamper1607 intriguea1714 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions viii. vi. 243 Such persons as shall machinate and deuise to execute such outragious designements against their prince. 1689 W. Walker tr. Vindiciæ contra Tyrannos (new ed.) 130 A Tyrant conspires, machinates, and lays his plots and practises. 1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 101 The blackest treason may lurk and machinate at his very threshold. 1858 F. Faber tr. D. Bartoli & J. P. Maffei Life Xavier 312 Whilst the Portuguese had been preparing for their departure, the bonzes had been machinating against them. 1975 S. R. Delany Dhalgren ii. 117 We silently machinate toward the joint of flesh and flesh. 1992 Times 13 Feb. 7/1 Under the 1983 canon law code, membership of all associations that machinate against the Roman Catholic church is forbidden. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1537 |
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