noun
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a collection or assembly of engines; machinery
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engines employed in warfare
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rare skilful manoeuvring or contrivance
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Etymology
Origin of enginery
Example Sentences
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Consider for a moment this enginery of muscular forces at the command of the singer, and which his intelligent and ripe knowledge must guide.
From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.
Never did popular agitation, wielding the peaceful weapons of truth, more brilliantly display its superiority over physical force, and the enginery of war, in accomplishing a great and salutary revolution.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
The three pirate vessels, two large triremes and the yacht, discharged all their enginery.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns
It was the old Missouri struggle renewed, with more numerous combatants, a stronger influence of the press, a mightier enginery of public opinion.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
With a large army, thoroughly drilled, and equipped with all the enginery of war, the sultan commenced his campaign.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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