mechanico-comb. form

1964 Y. R. Chao in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 39 The mechanico-acoustic set-up for recording speech on wax masters.

1849 Littell's Living Age 11 Aug. 287/2 The author appears to have a high degree of mechanico-intellectual power.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 143 [Steam] is yet coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go 9 The strike situation..is a mechanico-material struggle, two mechanical forces pulling asunder from the central object, the bone.

1865 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood vi, in Sunday Mag. Nov. 80/1 Stepping over many single leaves, in a kind of mechanico-merciful way.

1833 M. Faraday Diary 25 Nov. (1932) II. 171 As illustrations of mechanico chemical action refer in note to Carb. Soda, Phos. Soda, Iodide Mercury, Oil on water.

1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. 265 Of these conditions no mere mechanical explanation can be given; we are compelled to take along with us chemical properties and relations also: and thus magnetism, electricity, galvanism, are mechanico-chemical sciences.

1994 Neurol. Res. 16 330 In this way we supply the neuron with an activity driven gain parameter that not only increases volume of neuronal output at very low energy cost but that also upscales cooperative effects at the mechanico-chemical level of the dendrite to the network level itself.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 391 The utter emptiness..of the vaunted Mechanico-corpuscular Philosophy.

1988 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 49 88 The mechanico-corpuscular philosophy, I should now like to argue as an extension of Hutchinson's thesis, gave a sense to the notion of the interpretation of nature by non-occult means.

1937 Mind 46 176 We wish to stress here what we conceive to be the inadequacy of all ‘mechanico-morphic’ representations of concrete becoming in nature.

1935 J. Murphy tr. E. Schrödinger Sci. & Human Temperament Introd. 19 We must..abandon the mechanical structure. We must turn to the statistical concept... In other words, Schrödinger pleads for the abandonment of what may be called mechanico-morphism in the pursuit of natural science,..the casting aside of all models and the wholesale employment of mathematical formulas in their stead.

1939 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 34 25 (note) Darwin delivered the nineteenth century from anthropomorphism, and we have likewise survived the succeeding mechanicomorphism.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 666 The modern mechanico-physical philosophy..which..includes the nebular cosmogony, the conservation of energy, the kinetic theory of heat and gases, etc.,..begins by saying that..the only laws [are] the changes of motion which changes in collocation bring.

1969 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 132 293 In the above mechanico-physical examples, the human operator has control over certain variables.

1986 Nous 20 388 (note) Nietzsche would delighted [sic] in reminding Dennett and others of their unquestioned ‘instinct’ or prejudice for a stance with great predictive power (especially, the mechanico-physical ones).

1922 G. H. Parker Smell, Taste & Allied Senses in Vertebr. viii. 169 This peculiarity of the chemoreceptors is in strong contrast with that which occurs in the so-called mechanicoreceptors, the organs of touch, pressure, and hearing.

1990 Lymphology 23 81 I predict that the most important new concept in the biology of endothelium is the recognition of mechanico-receptors as a determinant of its behavior.