Machinamentum, ti, n. g. pro machina. Liu.An engine.Oppugoationum machinamenta & astus. Tac. Suspensum & nutans machinamentum. Tac. Promouere scalas, & machinamenta. Tac. Machinâtor. pen. prod. toris, m. g. Verbale. An inuenter: a desser: a worker: an author: a maker of engines. vt Machinator bellicorum instrumentorum. Liu.A maker of.Machinator belli.Liu.The worker or author of.Improbilsimus machinator omnium scelerum. Cice. A mose wicked worker and deuiser.Doli machinator. Tac. Archicectus & machinator omnium.Cic.The chiefe worker and deusser of all.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
māchĭnāmentum, i, n. [id.], a machine, engine; an instrument, organ (perh. not ante-Aug.; not in Cic. or Cæs.). I.Lit.: machinamenta alia quatiendis muris portabant,
military engines
, Liv. 24, 34: suspensum et nutans machinamentum, Tac. H. 4, 30: nihil tam ignarum barbaris, quam machinamenta et astus oppugnationum, id. A. 12, 45: tot genera machinamentorum ad extendendum femur,
surgical instruments
, Cels. 8, 20: singulis articulis singula machinamenta, quibus extorqueantur, aptata, Sen. Ep. 24, 14; id. Cons. ad Marc. 20, 3.— B.Transf., the organs of sense, App. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 9, 20.—II.Trop., a trick, device, stratagem (post-class.): callida commeantium, Cod. Th. 6, 28, 6.