machinate a plot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object), verb (used with object), : to machinate the overthrow of the government. From Dictionary.com.
“No,” I said, closing my eyes and trying to machinate as Honey-ishly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
Our tax dollars pay for people to sit in a room and machinate about all the likely next horrible things that could happen. From Wordnik.com. [Kimberly Brooks: What Else is on the List?] Reference
Here, I had no buddies to carp with, no enemies to machinate against, only a father who never liked me, and now, didn't even know me. From Wordnik.com. [Unspoken Bonds] Reference
Are you all missing the good old days when you could machinate and obfuscate all day long about Mann, the Hockey team and statistical felonies they committed?. From Wordnik.com. [Quelccaya Plant Deposits Again « Climate Audit] Reference
This event revived the hopes of the sect, who once more began to machinate against Michelangelo. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
When we four panellists gathered in the bar the day before to machinate about our session, Carl decided that he was going to spend his five minutes tolling the bells of doom. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Barring that, allow the moratorium to expire and let the Democrats machinate as the attempt to hide it in one of the budget authorizations that are now under a time constraint. From Wordnik.com. [No Runny Eggs] Reference
He neither wished for war, nor dared he machinate for it; but with all his democratic soul he loved the cause which was convulsing the world from its ferocious centre in France. From Wordnik.com. [The Conqueror] Reference
It is about the financial 'lebensraum' of this small coterie of corrupt Bankers as despised by Jefferson, who have used 'credit' as in belief given to machinate situation where there can be. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
The variability has become higher and higher over the last 8-9 quarters and I realize there are some extenuating circumstances but it has been pretty hard to actually machinate what original feasibility and everything were. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
He would machinate with really considerable energy, and repair to a certain gallery high above the street of moving ways, from which he could view the entrance to the barrack of the Labour Company in the ward which sheltered Denton and Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
The Israelis with the support of members of America's administration machinate to exclude the elected government not only from negotiations but even from receiving aid on behalf of our people, moves that we see as a shameful effort to divide Palestinians while paying lip service to their unity. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
Good apes begat good apes, and at last when human intelligence stole like a late spring upon the mimicry of our semi - simious ancestry, the creature learnt how he could, of his own forethought, add extra-corporaneous limbs to the members of his body and become not only a vertebrate mammal, but a vertebrate machinate mammal into the bargain. From Wordnik.com. [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference
(unless, indeed, we are to embark in the war with her, which nobody is so hardy as to avow, though some secretly machinate it). From Wordnik.com. [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference
Her body never becomes machinate, whereas this new phase of organism, which has been introduced with man into the mundane economy, has made him a very quicksand for the foundation of an unchanging civilisation; certain fundamental principles will always remain, but every century the change in man's physical status, as compared with the elements around him, is greater and greater; he is a shifting basis on which no equilibrium of habit and civilisation can be established; were it not for this constant change in our physical powers, which our mechanical limbs have brought about, man would have long since apparently attained his limit of possibility; he would be a creature of as much fixity as the ants and bees -- he would still have advanced but no faster than other animals advance. From Wordnik.com. [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference
Man, he said, was a machinate mammal. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon] Reference
But he did not select a country composed entirely of fools to machinate in. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Conqueror] Reference
YouTube via machinate. From Wordnik.com. [MATRIXSYNTH] Reference
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