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Definition of Engineries
1. enginery [n] - See also: enginery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engineries
Literary usage of Engineries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Doctrine of Mechanicalism by Socrates Scholfield (1907)
"... field of the Adverse Medium —then the engineries provided for the objective
action of these individuals at the completion of their transformations, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... The North flies forth, and hurls the frighted air : Not all the brazen engineries
of man, At once exploded, the wild burst surpass. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... mark : Whilst round him all the horizon 'a daik With engineries of hostile Power.
So, laurelled Singer, silver-strong Athwart thy stram will fancy ttit, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1764)
"Each wind appeas'd, Not all the brazen engineries of man," Yst thunder, yok'd
with lightning and with rain, At once exploded, the wild burli ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"... sphered above Thy country, with the muttering storm did lower, When the massed
engineries of hate and love Thundered and flashed with elemental power, ..."
6. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"... efforts to perfect the engineries of death, devastation and oppression, which
are to make brute force in our days more and more terrible and destructive ..."
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