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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Etymology
Origin of mechanist
First recorded in 1600–10; mechan(ic) + -ist
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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
Add to this the consideration that the mechanist theory does not even claim to account for the first origin of the universe: it postulates the existence of matter in motion.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
M. Maelzel, the mechanist, inventor of the musical metronome, was one of Beethoven's warmest friends and adherents.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
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