mechanist in English
noun
1
a person who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.
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.
2
a person skilled in the design or construction of machinery.
Huygens was the greatest mechanist of the seventeenth century.
Use "mechanist" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "mechanist" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mechanist", or refer to the context using the word "mechanist" in the English Dictionary.
1. My spies tell me that meddling Mechanist has been removed from the picture. I only wish I had that tin-man's shell to gloat over!
2. Geniuses espousing what is now modern Mechanist philosophy have always been around, but the Baramin itself officially formed after a schism in the International Union of Artifice