enginery

plural engineries · alternative obsolete enginrie

1. archaiccountableuncountableMachinery made up of engines; instruments of war.

   Training his devilish enginery.

   1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

2. archaiccountableuncountableThe act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

   [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.

   1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 162

3. archaiccountableuncountableAny device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

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

   a. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abbey

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   '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.

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