machinate

From Latin machinatus, past participle of machinari (“to contrive, plan, devise, plot, scheme”), from machina (“a machine, contrivance, device, scheme”); see machine.

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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?

• machine
• machination

• plot
• conspire
• plan

• machinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• machinate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• anathemic

māchināte

1. vocative masculine singular of māchinātus