1Philosophy A person who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.
〔哲〕机械论者
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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.
机械师；机械设计师
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Huygens was the greatest mechanist of the seventeenth century.
Definition of mechanist in US English:
mechanist
nounˈmekənəstˈmɛkənəst
1Philosophy A person who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.
〔哲〕机械论者
Example sentencesExamples
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.
Newton was no mechanist and didn't see the universe as a smooth-running machine.
But in the second half of the century both neoplatonists and mechanists usually promoted more practical projects.
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.
It was as alien to the Greeks as it was commonplace to the mechanists that one should seek to interfere with nature.
2archaic A person skilled in the design or construction of machinery.
机械师；机械设计师
Example sentencesExamples
Huygens was the greatest mechanist of the seventeenth century.