People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are “hard wired” to do good in order to enhance their own happiness. Andrew Delbanco (New York Times Magazine, May 7, 2000; p. 46). [ PJC ]
v. t.
My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of justice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]