automatizedadj.
/ˈɔːtəmətʌɪzd/, /ɔːˈtɒmətʌɪzd/, U.S. /ɔˈtɑməˌtaɪzd/, /əˈtɑməˌtaɪzd/, /ɑˈtɑməˌtaɪzd/ 1. Of a person: reduced to an automaton.
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1858 G. J. Holyoake Trial of Theism xxiv. 149 You do not feel a living church moving under free principles, but you find a starched and petrified creed, pressing on an automatised congregation.
1937 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 67 121 (note) This Durkheimian..interpretation..would make the individual into an automatised being.
1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) xi. 266 After almost forty-eight hours without sleep, she had become ‘automatized’.
2004 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Features section) The numbed, automatised soldiery of Full Metal Jacket.
2. Of an action, behaviour, etc.: that has become automatic; done without conscious thought or volition. Cf. automatize v. 2.
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1908 J. R. Angell Psychol. (ed. 4) iii. 63 His automatised writing habits are powerless to deal with such a difficulty and they must consequently give way to conscious control processes.
1914 Francis W. Parker School Year Bk. III. 16 In a little while they [sc. slight movements of the tongue, jaw, or head] could be neglected and would go on of themselves, like any other automatized movement.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 567/1 Beritoff proposed three different kinds of individually acquired conditioned behaviour: automatized conditioning behaviour, image-driven behaviour and planned behaviour.
1996 Internat. Rev. Appl. Linguistics 34 i. 55 Uptakers and appealers are automatized items in one's L1 [sc. first language], so it is not surprising that they feature in learners' IL [sc. interlanguage].
2006 K. Sterelny in P. Carruthers et al. Innate Mind II. xiv. 223 We reliably develop automatized skills as a result of prolonged immersion in highly structured developmental environments.
3. Provided with or using automatic devices; (of a system, process, etc.) made automatic, automated.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [adjective] > automated
automatized1921
automated1952
1921 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 436/1 It is estimated that seventy per cent of the workers in an automatized plant can be brought to efficient production in three days or less.
1955 F. Pohl in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Jan. 26/1 Nobody was in sight. By itself, that was not so very odd—the automatized factory had never had very many persons in it.
1960 Commentary June 470/2 A rich, heavily automatized society.
1980 M. Brake Sociol. Youth Culture vi. 163 The expense of maintenance and replacement [of the plant] was avoided by the introduction of automatized or maintenance industries.
2002 Mil. Thought (Nexis) 1 Jan. Men will have a smaller role to play [in war]... An ‘automatized fighting field’ will develop on which one automatized system will confront another.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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