enginous
adj/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnəs/
Etymology From Old French engignos. See ingenious.
1
Obsolete Pertaining to an engine.
- That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all.1607, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon:
2
Obsolete Contrived with care; ingenious.
- the mark of all their enginous drifts1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC: