Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

enginery

/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: en-gin-ery
IPA: /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Training his devilish enginery."
"[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."
"To play some image on the gaping crowd, Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose, Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome"
"'Mid that hush of soul Music from viewless harps shall visit thee, Such as thou never heard'st amid the din Of earth's coarse enginery, by toil and care Urged on, without reprieve."

Etymology

From engine + -ry.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: engine

Usage

Inflected Forms

engineries (plural) enginrie (alternative, obsolete)

Questions

How do you pronounce enginery?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/.
What does enginery mean?: Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
Where does enginery come from?: From engine + -ry.

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