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machinator

machinator noun: one who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

Noun

machinator (plural machinators)

  1. One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
    • what Archimedes did by the cleane strength of his ingenious Art, no lesse admirable, then commendable for the defence of his Citty, and Countrey against the Romanes: that doe this viperous brood by their Arte infernall, no lesse detestable then damnable (infused into them by that Romaine Architect...1627, Henry Burton, The Baiting of the Popes Bull, page 26
    • […] ’tis one of the great Designs, as ’tis certainly the Interest, of those wicked Agents and Machinators, industriously to hide from us their Influences and Ways of acting;1726, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus: Or, A full and plain Evidence, concerning Witches and Apparitions, page 18

machinator meaning in Kannada

machinator in Kannada

ಪಿತೂರಿಗಾರ

Examples of machinator in a sentence

  • Since then, he hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority;1820, Walter Scott, chapter 5, in Ivanhoe, volume 3, pages 127-128:
  • Before long the two machinators abandoned the rigour of the bare studio for a snug corner of a café.1904, O. Henry, “Masters of Arts”, in Cabbages and Kings, page 264:

Forms of machinator

pluralmachinators

Origin of machinator

Borrowed from Latin māchinātor (“engineer, inventor”).

Questions about machinator

What does machinator mean?
Machinator means one who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
What is machinator in Kannada?
Machinator in Kannada is ಪಿತೂರಿಗಾರ. See Machinator meaning in Kannada.
How do you use machinator in a sentence?
Since then, he hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority;
What part of speech is machinator?
Machinator is a noun.
What is the plural of machinator?
The plural of machinator is machinators.

Words near machinator in the dictionary

  1. machinated
  2. machinates
  3. machinating
  4. machination
  5. machinations
  6. machinator
  7. machinators
  8. machinatrices
  9. machinatrix
  10. Machinda
  11. machine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: machinator (page history and authors); machinator (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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