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Definition of Enginery
1. Noun. Machinery consisting of engines collectively.
Definition of Enginery
1. n. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
Definition of Enginery
1. Noun. (archaic) Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. ¹
3. Noun. (archaic) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enginery
1. machinery [n -RIES] - See also: machinery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enginery
Literary usage of Enginery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Résumé for by May Wright Sewall (1894)
"The very horrid enginery of war to-day makes men reflect and not go into war
readily. DISCUSSION OF THE SAME SUBJECT BY LIZZIE KIRKPATRICK OF CANADA. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"To make an animal germ is, then, to make a particle of albuminoid substance that
will grow and spontaneously develop a powerful piece of enginery, ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord by Francis Bacon (1824)
"... the aid and intervening of the mathematics: of which sort are perspective,
music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, enginery, and divers others. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"To make an animal germ is, then, to make a particle of albuminoid substance that
will grow and spontaneously develop a powerful piece of enginery, ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1854)
"It is as absurd to complain of our criticisms, because we have not gone directly
to work to demolish the enginery with which they forge their doctrines, ..."
6. The Philosophy of Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usage in Great Britain by John Dunlop (1839)
"Besides a vitiated Appetite, a metaphysical enginery at Work— Case of Negroes
and Hindoos contrasted—Usages of other Lands—Ladies and Gentlemen—Conventional ..."
7. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1905)
"Nearly all these movements would have to be made where even a moderate sized man
could not stand erect, and in close contact to a tangle of enginery that ..."
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