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Meanings of machinate in English

Portuguese
organizar
Catalan
organitzar
Spanish
preparar

To arrange by systematic planning and united effort (e.g. a plot, a strike, a plan).

        organizar
        Portuguese
        conspirar
        Catalan
        conspirar
        Spanish
        conspirar

        Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together.

              conspirar
              Usage of machinate in English
              1
              This event revived the hopes of the sect, who once more began to machinate against Michelangelo.
              The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
              2
              Man, he said, was a machinate mammal.
              Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
              3
              He is clever, that West Indian,-dothey grow many such?-buthe did not select a country composed entirely of fools to machinate in.
              The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Ha...
              4
              When I didn't hear from you I got worried, and then I remembered the machinated postbox you said you'd made for me.
              Library of Souls
              5
              I was driving back from machinating at a festival an hour south when I found him in the middle of the road.
              A Wiccan Bible
              6
              He still kept a greedy eye on the Orange Free State, and machinated for the union of the two States into a gigantic whole.
              South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) / From the Fou...
              Translations for machinate
              Machinate through the time