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Machinate

//ˈmækɪneɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire. ambitransitive

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

  2. 2
    engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together wordnet
  3. 3
    arrange by systematic planning and united effort wordnet

Etymology

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.

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