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Definition of Machinates
1. machinate [v] - See also: machinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machinates
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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