machinatorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

machinator (plural machinators)

1. One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
   • 1627, Henry Burton, The Baiting of the Popes Bull‎, page 26:

     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 or cheife machinator of all mischiefe) to betray their owne deare Mother Countrey into the hands of Rome,

   • 1726, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus: Or, A full and plain Evidence, concerning Witches and Apparitions‎, page 18:

     […] ’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;

   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 5, in Ivanhoe‎, volume 3, pages 127-128:

     Since then, he hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority;

   • 1904, O. Henry, “Masters of Arts”, in Cabbages and Kings‎, page 264:

     Before long the two machinators abandoned the rigour of the bare studio for a snug corner of a café.

   • 2005, James J. O’Donnell, chapter 7, in Augustine: A New Biography‎, page 189:

     [Augustine] and Cicero would be found to be brothers in many ways: failed family men and political upstart machinators whose prestige and creations succeeded beyond their lifetimes even while they themselves died amid the ruins of their earthly hopes;

関連する語

• machinate
• machination
• machinatrix

参照

• “machinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• achromatin, chromatian, marathonic

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [maː.kʰɪˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ma.kiˈnaː.tor]

名詞

māchinātor m (genitive māchinātōris); third declension

1. engineer
2. inventor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

動詞

māchinātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of māchinor

参照

• “machinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “machinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "machinator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “machinator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• machinator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016