machinate

First attested in 1537; borrowed from Latin machinātus, perfect active participle of machinor (“to invent, devise; to scheme, plot”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from māchina (“machine, contrivance, device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. See also machine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmækɪneɪt/, /ˈmæʃɪneɪt/

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machinate (third-person singular simple present machinates, present participle machinating, simple past and past participle machinated)

1. (ambitransitive) To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.
   • 2011, Ian Douglas Robertson, Turtle Hawks:

     Had she already managed to machinate a cushy job for her husband?

• “machinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “machinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• anathemic

māchināte

1. vocative masculine singular of māchinātus