mechanist
Americannoun
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a person who accepts a mechanistic philosophy
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another name for a mechanician
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Origin of mechanist
First recorded in 1600–10; mechan(ic) + -ist
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From the mechanist, his conviction that there is an order in the physical world, discoverable and manageable if it is approached with enough humility to comprehend its mysteries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mechanist will miniaturize it in terms of microfiche, and the mystics will miniaturize it by moving to a certain core of books and developing consciousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
—Soulzeren and Ozwin Eoh, a married couple: she a mechanist, he a farmer-botanist, who together had invented a craft they called a silk sleigh.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
If that can be done, I don't see why weaving should baffle a clever mechanist.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton
Millbank Prison.—It was designed, not by "Jeremy Bentham," but by his brother, the great mechanist, Sir Samuel Bentham.
From Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 by Various
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