To arrange by systematic planning and united effort (e.g. a plot, a strike, a plan).
Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together.
1 This event revived the hopes of the sect, who once more began to machinate against Michelangelo.
2 Man, he said, was a machinate mammal.
3 He is clever, that West Indian,-dothey grow many such?-buthe did not select a country composed entirely of fools to machinate in.
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.
5 I was driving back from machinating at a festival an hour south when I found him in the middle of the road.
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.
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