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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Machinery

Machinery (machinery)
n.(?)
Ma*chin"er*y
[From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.]
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively.
  2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
  3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

    The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.

  4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

    An indispensable part of the machinery of state. Macaulay.

    The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).














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