engyn
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Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman engine ?, from Old French engin m.
Noun
engyn
- engine, device
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 183-184:
- Ther may no man out of the place it dryve
For noon engyn of windas or polyve; [...]- No man there can drive it out of the place
Despite any contrivance of windlass or pulley; [...]
- No man there can drive it out of the place
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 183-184:
- skill, ingenuity; wit
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- But consider wel that I ne usurpe not to have founden this werk of my labour or of myn engyn.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 338-339:
- Right as a man hath sapiences three,
Memorie, engyn, and intellect also, [...]- Exactly as a man has three mental faculties,
Memory, imagination, and judgement also, [...]
- Exactly as a man has three mental faculties,
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
Descendants
- English: engine
References
- “engyn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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