See engyn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"english": "No man there can drive it out of the place\nDespite any contrivance of windlass or pulley; …",
"ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 183-184",
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},
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"text": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 338-339",
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"english": "No man there can drive it out of the place\nDespite any contrivance of windlass or pulley; …",
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"translation": "Treatise on the Astrolabe"
},
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"translation": "Right as a man hath sapiences three,\nMemorie, engyn, and intellect also, [...]\nExactly as a man has three mental faculties,\nMemory, imagination, and judgement also, …",
"type": "quotation"
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