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<blockquote>He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by <b>mechanism</b> or accident. <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Kinematics)</fld> <def>An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.</def>

<h1>Mechanist</h1> <Xpage=906>

<hw>Mech"an*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.</def>

<h1>Mechanize</h1> <Xpage=906>

<hw>Mech"an*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Mechanized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Mechanizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>m\'82chaniser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To cause to be mechanical.</def>

<i>Shelley.</i>

<h1>Mechanograph</h1> <Xpage=906>

<hw>Mech"an*o*graph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ machino + <ets>-graph</ets>.]</ety> <def>One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.</def>

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<h1>Mechanographic</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Mech`an*o*graph`ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Treating of mechanics.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; <as>as, a <ex>mechanographic</ex> record of changes of temperature; <ex>mechanographic</ex> prints.</as></def>

<h1>Mechanographist</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Mech`an*og"ra*phist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.</def>

<h1>Mechanography</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Mech`an*og"ra*phy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.</def>

<h1>Mechanurgy</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Mech"an*ur`gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ machine + the root of <?/ work.]</ety> <def>That branch of science which treats of moving machines.</def>

<h1>Mechitarist</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Mech"i*tar*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Mechitar</ets>, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.</def>

<h1>Mechlin</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Mech"lin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of lace made at, or originating in, <i>Mechlin</i>, in Belgium.</def>

<h1>Mechoacan</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Me*cho"a*can</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of <spn>Convolvulus</spn> (<spn>C. Mechoacan</spn>); -- so called from <i>Michoacan</i>, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.</def>

<h1>Meckelian</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Meck*e"li*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. <i>Meckel</i>, a German anatomist.</def>