di ex machinis

== English == === Noun === di ex machinis (rare) plural of deus ex machina 1969: Harold H. Kolb, The Illusion of Life: American Realism as a Literary Form, page 107 (University Press of Virginia) They do not depend on external circumstances, implausible natural events, startling coincidences, and the other di ex machinis that stalk mechanically through much romantic fiction. 1976: Art Byrne and Seán McMahon, Faces of the West, 1875–1925: A Record of Life in the West of Ireland, Photographic [and] Literary, page 33 (Appletree Press Ltd; →ISBN, 9780904651126); and reprinted in: