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countable and uncountable, plural engineries
(archaic) Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war. quotations
Training his devilish enginery.
1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
(archaic) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. quotations
[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.
1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], page 162
(archaic) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. quotations
To play some image on the gaping crowd, Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose, Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome
a. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abbey
'Mid that hush of soulMusic from viewless harps shall visit thee,Such as thou never heard'st amid the dinOf earth's coarse enginery, by toil and careUrged on, without reprieve.
1834, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Evening Thoughts, page 67