machinate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   arrange by systematic planning and united effort

   Machinate a plot.

2. 2
   verb

   To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.

   Had she already managed to machinate a cushy job for her husband?

First attested in 1537; borrowed from Latin machinātus, perfect active participle of machinor (“to invent, devise; to scheme, plot”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from māchina (“machine, contrivance, device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. See also machine.

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