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machinate
Part of speech: VerbTo plan; to contrive; to plot.
Usage examples "machinate":- And how does the Memory Machine madly machinate and murmur the answers? - "The Electronic Mind Reader", John Blaine.
- Have patience and I will presently go in to the king and hear his words and machinate somewhat in this matter, Inshallah!" - "Supplemental Nights, Volume 1", Richard F. Burton.
- 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", Samuel Butler.