machinate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire. ambitransitive
    — Had she already managed to machinate a cushy job for her husband?

词形变化

machinates present,singular,third-person machinating participle,present machinated participle,past machinated past

词源

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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