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mechanist|ˈmɛkənɪst|
[f. mechan-ic + -ist.]
1.
†a. A mechanic, handicraftsman (obs.).
b. One who constructs machinery; a machinist.
1606J. King Serm. Sept. 32 They will turn..Princes into mechanistes and artificers. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) I. x. §17. 92 Adapted by Mechanists to other sort of uses. 1759Johnson Rasselas vi, Having seen what the mechanist had already performed. a1761Cawthorn Poems (1771) 200 Observing this unlucky railer Was neither mechanist, nor taylor. 1806Edin. Rev. IX. 210 The mechanist could have very little to do with the success of the play. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxxii. X. 664 He collected..all the best engineers, mechanists, armourers, artisans, etc., whom Sicily or Italy could furnish.
2. One versed in mechanics; a mechanician.
1704Norris Ideal World ii. ii. 90 Placing their bodies in the aptest postures for their preservation, such as the wisest mechanist cannot correct. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 117 ⁋1 The Mechanist will be afraid to assert..the Possibility of tearing down Bulwarks with a Silkworm's thread. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 212 It is called by mechanists the center of gravity. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 160 One state possesses chemists, mechanists, mechanics of all kinds, men of science. a1822Shelley Def. Poetry Pr. Wks. 1888 II. 28 Poets have been challenged to resign the civic crown to reasoners and mechanists.
3. One who holds a mechanical theory of the universe. (Cf. mechanic B. 4.) Also as adj.
1668H. More Div. Dial. Characters, Cuphophron, A zealous..Platonist and Cartesian, or Mechanist. 1913J. S. Haldane Mechanism, Life & Personality i. 6 The constant controversies..between mechanists and non-mechanists. 1919G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House p. xv, Their mechanist theory taught them that medicine was the business of the chemist's laboratory, and surgery of the carpenter's shop. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place 43 One feels that the disputes between Mechanists and Vitalists are unsatisfactory. 1931Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 137 Those whom their opponents call ‘vitalists’ can see in the relationship an attribute of something living. Those whom their opponents dub ‘mechanists’ can see in the relationship [between association processes and neuronic excitation] a property they attribute to mechanism. 1965Listener 19 Aug. 286/2 Pain due to emotional disturbance..arises in the mind (or in the brain if you tend to be a mechanist). |