Definition of mechanist in English:
mechanist
noun ˈmɛk(ə)nɪstˈmɛkənəst
1Philosophy
A person who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.
Example sentencesExamples
- But in the second half of the century both neoplatonists and mechanists usually promoted more practical projects.
- It was as alien to the Greeks as it was commonplace to the mechanists that one should seek to interfere with nature.
- Newton was no mechanist and didn't see the universe as a smooth-running machine.
- Although, unlike most of his fashionable contemporaries and immediate successors, Descartes was not an atomist, he was, like the others, a mechanist about the properties of matter.
- For Descartes, and other mechanists who followed after him, the healthy body was nothing more than a well-functioning machine, soulless and subject to chemical and mechanical remedies.
2archaic A person skilled in the design or construction of machinery.
Example sentencesExamples
- Huygens was the greatest mechanist of the seventeenth century.