machinate

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  1. transitive verb To devise (a plot).
  2. intransitive verb To engage in plotting.

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  • YouTube via machinate —  MATRIXSYNTH
  • Match-making mas may machinate, —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • Her body never becomes machinate, whereas this new phase of organism, which has been introduced with man into the mundane economy, has made him a very quicksand for the foundation of an unchanging civilisation; certain fundamental principles will always remain, but every century the change in man's physical status, as compared with the elements around him, is greater and greater; he is a shifting basis on which no equilibrium of habit and civilisation can be established; were it not for this constant change in our physical powers, which our mechanical limbs have brought about, man would have long since apparently attained his limit of possibility; he would be a creature of as much fixity as the ants and bees -- he would still have advanced but no faster than other animals advance. —  The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
  • -- but he did not select a country composed entirely of fools to machinate in. " —  The Conqueror
  • He neither wished for war, nor dared he machinate for it; but with all his democratic soul he loved the cause which was convulsing the world from its ferocious centre in France. —  The Conqueror
 

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  1. Latin māchinārī, māchināt-, to design, contrive, from māchina, device; see machine.

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/ (măkˈə-nātˌ, măshˈ-)/
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