enginery

enginery

English

Alternative forms

• enginrie (obsolete)

Etymology

engine +‎ -ry

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

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Noun

enginery (countable and uncountable, plural engineries)

1. (archaic) Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Training his devilish enginery.

2. (archaic) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
   • 1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], OCLC 563123917, page 162:

     [B]ehold / Not diſtant far with heavie pace the Foe / Approaching groſs and huge; in hollow Cube / Training his deviliſh Enginrie, impal'd / On every ſide with ſhaddowing Squadrons Deep, / To hide the fraud.

3. (archaic) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
   • a. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abbey

     To play some image on the gaping crowd,
     Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose,
     Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome

   • 1834, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Evening Thoughts, page 67:

     'Mid that hush of soul
     Music from viewless harps shall visit thee,
     Such as thou never heard'st amid the din
     Of earth's coarse enginery, by toil and care
     Urged on, without reprieve.

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• reneying