enginousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnəs/

形容詞

enginous (comparative more enginous, superlative most enginous)

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to an engine.
   • 1607, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon

     That one act gives, like an enginous wheel,
     Motion to all.

2. (obsolete) Contrived with care; ingenious.
   • 1600 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:

     the mark of all their enginous drifts