Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete variants of engine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Variant of
engine .
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- noun Obsolete form of
engine .
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Examples
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So wot I never with what engyn the fiend enchafed him, for yesterday he took me from my father privily; for I nor none of my father's men mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maidenhead he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishonoured for ever.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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So wot I never with what engyn the fiend enchafed him, for yesterday he took me from my father privily; for I nor none of my fathers men mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maidenhead he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishonoured for ever.
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Weenyng that _Geometrie_, had but serued for buildyng of an house, or a curious bridge, or the roufe of Westminster hall, or some witty pretty deuise, or engyn, appropriate to a Carpenter, or a Ioyner &c.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
bilby commented on the word engyn
"So wot I never with what engyn the fiend enchafed him, for yesterday he took me from my father privily; for I nor none of my father’s men mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maidenhead he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishonoured for ever."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 13, 2009