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Definition of Machinate
1. Verb. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort. "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"
Generic synonyms: Initiate, Pioneer
Specialized synonyms: Mount, Put On, Lay, Set Up, Sandwich, Spatchcock, Embattle
Derivative terms: Deviser, Devising, Machination, Organisation, Organisation, Organization, Organization, Organization, Preparative
2. Verb. Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together. "They machinate to move "; "They conspired to overthrow the government"
Specialized synonyms: Coconspire
Generic synonyms: Plot
Derivative terms: Cabal, Conspiracy, Conspirative, Conspirator, Machination, Machinator
Definition of Machinate
1. v. i. To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.
2. v. t. To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.
Definition of Machinate
1. Verb. (''transitive'' or ''intransitive'') To devise, with others, a plot or secret plan; to conspire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Machinate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machinate
Literary usage of Machinate
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)
"Though that enemy shall not overthrow it yet because it plots, and works, and
machinate«, and would overthrow it, this is a defect in that peace. ..."
2. Labor Bulletin by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1906)
"... В. А., в Regan, RS, 185 of machinate. HW Ireson, Lynn; ID Chestnut, Waltham.
State District Lodge No. 4Î of Machinists (Boston AA Farnsworth, R. Keene, ..."
3. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"... to make, to fabricate; eg in metal 1 K 7, 14 ; in wood, stone, see tj^n ; c.
ace. of material 1 K. L c. — Metaph. to work, to devise, to machinate evil, ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... confederate and con- ' spire, and each of them did machinate, pro- ' pose,
and int. ml h> beat, wound, and evilly ' treat the said William ..."
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