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Meaning of enginery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

Definitions

  1. Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
  2. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
  3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
    archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Training his devilish enginery.”
“[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.”
“To play some image on the gaping crowd, Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose, Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome”
“'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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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