1. of a carpenter, to make, work, frame , (Iliad by Homer):—;absolute to do joiners' work , opposite to smiths' work, (Aristophanes Comicus)

2. of other artificers, (Homeric Hymns)

3. metaphorically to devise, plan, contrive , especially by craft, Lat. machinari, ἐτεκτήναντ᾽ ἀπόφθεγκτόν μ᾽ they kept me from speech of them, (Euripides); πᾶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω (sc. Cleon) (Aristophanes Comicus)

4. later, Act. τεκταίνω, in same sense, [variant datesAnthology Palantina, (Lucian); hence participle passive τεκταινόμενος, (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)