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1
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends
- a trio of courtiers who were discovered to be machinating against the queen
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2
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
- the hackers machinated a way to steal credit numbers from the company's Web site
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The first known use of machinate was in 1537
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