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Machinate

verb
(past & past part. machinated; pres. part. machinating)
1.
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.  Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare.  "Organize a strike" , "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"
2.
Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together.  Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire.





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... the beauteous Kate and her mischief-loving maiden, to plot and machinate against the unsuspecting lover. It behoveth us, moreover, to be absent for a somewhat grave and weighty reason, to wit, that when women are a-plotting, another and a more renowned personage—the beau ideal of whose dress and personal appearance, ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby


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