单词 | mechanizing |
释义 | mechanizingn. rare. The action of mechanize v. (in quot. 1678 used attributive); mechanization. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > mechanism or mechanistic theory > holding theory mechanizing1678 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 175 Some of the ancient Religious Atomists, were also too much infected with this Mechanizing Humour. 1906 Mind 15 137 The chief ills of our present-day civilisation, its mechanising of life and its pessimism, find their remedy in the teaching of Schiller. 2008 L. Larson Dreams to Automobiles 44 They produced practical stationary [steam] engines to be used for pumping and the mechanizing of the textile industry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mechanizingadj. That mechanizes someone or something; mechanistic. ΚΠ 1852 R. Montgomery Luther (ed. 6) 337 The tir'd breath monotonously tones Ave Marias... Thus a mechanizing Priest can make Persons turn Things. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 151 Technological preparation is often a mechanizing process which in adapting for a necessary function widely deflects consciousness from social issues. 1936 Discovery Oct. 328/2 The mechanising mind had outstripped the moralising capitalist. 2000 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 33 133 If you were a seventeenth-century modernizing and mechanizing critic of traditional natural philosophy, you tended to take a very different view of the matter. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678adj.1852 |
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