Definition of Machinates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of machinate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Machinates

1. machinate [v] - See also: machinate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Machinates

machicolates
machicolating
machicolation
machicolations
machicotage
machicote
machicotes
machilid
machilids
machinabilities
machinability
machinable
machinal
machinate
machinated
machinates (current term)
machinating
machination
machinations
machinator
machinators
machine-accessible
machine-controlled
machine-displayable text
machine-driven
machine-gun
machine-gunner
machine-gunners
machine-made

Literary usage of Machinates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"To lay plots or schemes. it plots, and works, and machinates, and would overthrow Though that ... One who machinates; one who schemes with evil designs. ..."

2. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"... the term dolus for the purpose of signifying intention, may, perhaps, be explained thus: Fraud imports intention: For he who contrives or machinates ad ..."

3. Economic Abstracts by Netherlands, Bibliotheek, Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool, Minister von Sociale Zaken (1901)
"Time, day-time especially, hangs heavy in the Borgo. One machinates in the face of many green shutters, which are not necessarily dead because they are ..."

4. Costume in Roman Comedy by Catharine Saunders (1909)
"... machinates, ceteri Latin! ad instar Graecorum habent, Terentius non habet. * Cf. And., pr. 1 ff. This element of literary polemic in his prologues had ..."

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