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Definition of Machinators
1. machinator [n] - See also: machinator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machinators
Literary usage of Machinators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of Mirabeau: And of the Two First Legislative Assemblies of France by Etienne Dumont (1832)
"Such machinators did certainly not produce the public feeling; they only took
advantage of it. It is true, that they excited and directed it; ..."
2. Recollections of Mirabeau: And of the Two First Legislative Assemblies of France by Etienne Dumont (1832)
"Such machinators did certainly not produce the public feeling; they only took
advantage of it. It is true, that they excited and directed it; ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1875)
"... of those persons—so vehemently inveighed against by the Archbishop as the
machinators of a horrible conspiracy against the Church—the Old Catholics. ..."
4. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1904)
"Three days before it assembled a large meeting of coloured people was addressed
from the steps of the city hall by some of the machinators and at least one ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"... he deals a crashing blow (as upon rival machinators) on that malignant party
in European politics, whether it call itself liberal or of tho movement, ..."
6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1837)
"... but to have been used as the instruments of concealed political machinators ;
and this occurrence greatly strengthened the hands of ministers, ..."
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