enginous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French engignos. See ingenious.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]enginous (comparative more enginous, superlative most enginous)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to an engine.
- 1607, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon:
- That one act gives, like an enginous wheel,
Motion to all.
- (obsolete) Contrived with care; ingenious.
- 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- the mark of all their enginous drifts