mechanist

American  

[mek-uh-nist] / ˈmɛk ə nɪst /

noun

1. a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.

2. a mechanician.

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mechanist British  

/ ˈmɛkənɪst /

noun

1. a person who accepts a mechanistic philosophy

2. another name for a mechanician

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Other Word Forms

• antimechanist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of mechanist

First recorded in 1600–10; mechan(ic) + -ist

Example Sentences

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

A mechanist was then sent to the north, to procure a collection of new machinery; and, after extraordinary delays and difficulties, he embarked with it at New York in February, 1837.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

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 Cohen, Chapman