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enginrie

enginrie is the obsolete spelling of enginery.

Meaning of enginery

Noun

enginery (countable and uncountable, plural engineries)

  1. (archaic) Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
    • Training his devilish enginery.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. (archaic) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
    • [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.1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 162
  3. (archaic) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
    • To play some image on the gaping crowd,
      Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose,
      Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Romea. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abbey

Forms of enginrie

pluralenginries

Questions about enginrie

What is enginrie the obsolete spelling of?
Enginrie is the obsolete spelling of enginery.

Words near enginrie in the dictionary

  1. engines
  2. enginewright
  3. enginewrights
  4. engining
  5. enginous
  6. enginrie
  7. enginries
  8. engins
  9. engird
  10. engirded
  11. engirding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enginrie (page history and authors); enginery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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