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Mechanical

adjective

Using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices. "His smile was very mechanical" , "A mechanical toy"

Relating to or concerned with machinery or tools. Synonym: mechanically skillful. "Mechanical design" , "Mechanical skills"

Relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics. "The mechanical pressure of a strong wind"

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"Mechanical" Quotes from Famous Books

... as we did in our first chapter, that the Japanese have already formed an Occidento-Oriental civilization, we meant that Japan has introduced not only the external and mechanical elements of Western civilization into her new social order, but also its inner and determinative principle—individualism. In saying that, as the Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots, so Japan will never ...

— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick

... anxious dependence upon ecclesiastical authority, that scrupulous mistrust of his own mental faculties, that pretense of solving problems by accumulated citations instead of going to the root of the matter, whereby his philosophical writings are rendered nugatory, may with probability be traced to the mechanical and interested system of the Jesuits. He was their pupil for three years, after which he joined his father in Rome. There he seems to have passed at once into a healthier atmosphere. Bernardo, though a sound Catholic, was ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

... to Chicago, I was taken by the president of one of the largest banks to see his new safety deposit vaults. He described these—as bank presidents will—as the largest and most marvellous vaults in the city. He expatiated on the heavy steel doors and the various electrical and mechanical contrivances which protect the stocks and bonds deposited ...

— Fundamentals of Prosperity - What They Are and Whence They Come • Roger W. Babson

... aristocracy, of territorial possession, of established religions, he recalled the doctrine of Burke; and he resembled that illustrious man in his passionate love of principle, in his proud hatred of shifts and compromises, in his contempt for the whole race of mechanical politicians and their ignoble strife for ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... echoed a mechanical expectation in Annie's heart, which was probably present in many others there. It was some time before she could cast it out, even after he had taken his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," and she followed him with ...

— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells

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