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ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 406 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

ENGINE (See also:
LAT
Lat. ingenium) , a See also:

TERM

term which in the See also:

time of See also:

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (? 1340-1400)

Chaucer had the meaning of " natural See also:

TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent " or " ability," corresponding to the Latin from which it is derived (cf. " A See also:

man hath sapiences thre, Memorie, engin, and See also:

INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)

intellect also," Second See also:

NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

Nun's See also:

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

Tale, 339) ; in this sense it is now obsolete. It also denoted a See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical See also:

TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the English word " taw," to work or dress leather)

tool or contrivance, and especially a weapon of See also:

war; this use may be compared with that of ingenium in classical Latin to mean a See also:

CLEVER

clever See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea or See also:

DEVICE

device, and in later Latin, as in See also:

TERTULLIAN (c. 155-c. 222)

Tertullian, for a warlike See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument or See also:

machine. In the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it came to have, when employed alone, a specific reference to the See also:

steam-engine (q.v.), but it is also used of other See also:

PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

MOVERS, FRANZ KARL (18o6–1856)

movers such as the See also:

air-engine, See also:

GAS

gas-engine and oil-engine (qq.v.).

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