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enginery

[ en-juhn-ree ]

noun

plural engineries.
  1. engines collectively; machinery.
  2. engines of war collectively.
  3. skillful or artful contrivance.


enginery

/ ˈɛ²Ô»åÏôɪ²Ô°ùɪ /

noun

  1. a collection or assembly of engines; machinery
  2. engines employed in warfare
  3. rare.
    skilful manoeuvring or contrivance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of enginery1

First recorded in 1595–1605; engine + -ry
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Never did popular agitation, wielding the peaceful weapons of truth, more brilliantly display its superiority over physical force, and the enginery of war, in accomplishing a great and salutary revolution.

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These bonds, these millions, these almost incalculable amounts, were given to pay for shot and shell, for rifle and torpedo, for men-of-war, for forts and arsenals, and all the devilish enginery of death.

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What ordnance and what martial enginery Could e'er avail his legions proud to quell?

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Back of this man of the law, with his gleaming star and pocket revolver, he saw himself standing, the real mainspring of that blatant enginery.

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I will indicate some further defensive enginery in my next chapter.

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