Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Engine; mill; works; specifically, sugar-works; a sugar-plantation.
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Examples
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They run their big eighteen wheel trucks up and down our main road and ship trainloads of sugar cane into the ingenio.
Zafra 2009
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Just north of Tala, alongside Highway 70, you can't miss el ingenio, the government-owned sugar refinery whose chimneys fill the air with black smoke, day and night.
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The ingenio hires thousands of people and moves them all over three provinces in big yellow school buses.
Zafra 2009
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The sugar can company burns the cane before cutting it, making it easier to hack into little bits before it gets shipped to the ingenio (factory) in Barahona (the nearest city).
Zafra 2009
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Just north of Tala, alongside Highway 70, you can't miss el ingenio, the government-owned sugar refinery whose chimneys fill the air with black smoke, day and night.
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This term is found in the Prohemium of Piero della Francesca's treatise on the five "platonic" solids, De quinque corporibus regularibus, dedicated to Prince Guidobaldo: "qui non minori artis studio/ingenio/solertia/& industria fuerunt."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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To chapter 4, paragraph 21Two of the three parts of rhetorical ability described by Cicero in De oratore (1.25) — doctrina (theory) and ingenio (talent) — are present in Veterani's dystich at Gubbio.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Separabis terram ab igne, subtile ab spisso, suaviter, magno cum ingenio.
cytokinesis Diary Entry cytokinesis 2008
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Moreover, but two months before had gone from London Captain Hare in the bark Minion, for Brazil, and a company of adventurers with him, with Sheffield hardware, and “Devonshire and Northern kersies,” hollands and “Manchester cottons,” for there was a great opening for English goods by the help of one John Whithall, who had married a Spanish heiress, and had an ingenio and slaves in
Westward Ho! 2007
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Vita jugata meo non facit ingenio: me juvat, &c. many married men exclaim at the miseries of it, and rail at wives downright; I never tried, but as I hear some of them say, [5762] Mare haud mare, vos mare acerrimum, an Irish Sea is not so turbulent and raging as a litigious wife.
knitandpurl commented on the word ingenio
sugar mill -- I came across the word in Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit
January 8, 2009
avivamagnolia commented on the word ingenio
~Spanish for ingenuity, talent.
January 19, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word ingenio
"Seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century cider presses like John Worlidge's 'ingenio for the grinding of apples' had been expensive and hard to obtain."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 108
June 9, 2010