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单词 mechanicalize
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mechanicalizev.

Brit. /mᵻˈkanᵻkl̩ʌɪz/, /mᵻˈkanᵻkəlʌɪz/, U.S. /məˈkænəkəˌlaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– mechanicalize, 1900s– mechanicalise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mechanical adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < mechanical adj. + -ize suffix. With sense 1 compare earlier mechanicalized adj. 1; with sense 2 compare earlier mechanize v., now the commoner word.
1. transitive. To make vulgar or lowly. See mechanical adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (transitive)]
unpolish1748
unrefine1771
hackney1785
mechanicalize1818
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. To mechanicalize, to render mean or low.
2. transitive. To make machine-like or mechanical; to mechanize.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > render mechanical [verb (transitive)]
mechanicalize1862
mechanize1942
society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > adopt doctrines, methods, or management systems [verb (transitive)] > render mechanical
mechanicalize1862
mechanicize1885
1862 Continental Monthly June 665 We could wish they had not gone so far to mechanicalize the pupil's enunciation, by too freely introducing throughout the points of inflection.
1897 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 386 I..pointed out how inevitable was the tendency of the increased employment of machinery to mechanicalize the workman.
1903 Daily News 4 Mar. 3/1 The tendency of modern industry to ‘mechanicalise men’.
1924 Army Q. Oct. 39 The first step suggested is that the divisional transport should be mechanicalized.
1976 Negro Amer. Lit. Forum 10 15/1 In [Chester] Himes' paradox, white capitalist power, in the triad of Government, Army and Business, mechanicalizes human vitality..while allowing the brute processes of domestic racism.

Derivatives

meˈchanicalizing n.
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1892 Cosmopolitan June 155/2 Even utilitarianism and the mechanicalizing of labor have failed entirely to take away its significance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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