mechanist
Americannoun
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a person who accepts a mechanistic philosophy
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another name for a mechanician
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of mechanist
First recorded in 1600–10; mechan(ic) + -ist
Example Sentences
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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
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
—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
But there is another paradox about this book: the above absurd opinion is attributed to that excellent mechanist, Sir William Petty, who passed his days among the astronomers.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
So the mechanist, while firmly believing that there is an ascending unity in all natural phenomena, is never silly enough to deny that living things are alive, or that thinking beings think.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
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