di ex machina
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English
Noun
- plural of deus ex machina
- 1913: E.H. Pearce, M.A., Sion College and Library, page 102 (Cambridge University Press) · (also reprinted in 2008)
- Then appeared three di ex machina in the persons of John Denne, D.D., vicar of St Leonard, Shoreditch, rector of Lambeth, and Archdeacon and Canon of Rochester; Robert Drew, rector of St Margaret Pattens, and Prebendary of St Paul’s; and Reuben Clarke, D.D., rector of St Magnus the Martyr, Archdeacon of Essex, and chaplain in ordinary to George II.
- 1975: Christopher Traugott Hermann Rudolph Ehrhardt, Studies in the Reigns of Demetrius II and Antigonus Doson : Text, page 233 (State University of New York at Buffalo)
- It was in these circumstances that the Romans appeared, practically as di ex machina, with a fleet of two hundred ships, in contrast to the Achaeans’ ten,
- 2003, May 31st: Jared Lobdell (editor), The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930–1935, page 2 (McFarland & Co.; →ISBN, 9780786414543)
- Of the others, I should say here that their various di ex machina include Tarot cards (The Greater Trumps),
- 1913: E.H. Pearce, M.A., Sion College and Library, page 102 (Cambridge University Press) · (also reprinted in 2008)