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automatist|ɔːˈtɒmətɪst| [f. prec.: see -ist.] 1. One who holds the doctrine of automatism (1).
1882Goldw. Smith in Pop. Sci. Monthly XX. 768 Though not a declared automatist, Mr. Spencer is a necessarian. 2. One who is subject to automatism; a medium; in Art, one whose technique is based upon automatism (sense 5). Also attrib.
1885Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research III. 41, I have seen an automatist writing page after page in ordinary handwriting, and then a page in mirror-writing. a1901― Human Personality (1903) I. 28 The ordinary consciousness of the automatist appears to be suspended; he passes into a state of trance. 1920W. B. Yeats in If I were Four & Twenty (1940) 43 He gathered the opinions, as he believed, of spirits speaking through a great number of automatist and trance speakers. 1959Listener 2 July 26/2 Exhibitions by their own artists, in the international idioms of pure Abstract, Abstract-Concrete, Tâchiste, Automatist [etc.]. |