Part 798

<i>Young.</i>

<h1>Automatic, Automatical</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw><hw>Au`to*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Au`to*mat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>automatique</ets>. See <er>Automaton</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having an inherent power of action or motion.</def>

<blockquote>Nothing can be said to be <b>automatic</b>. <i>Sir H. Davy.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; <as>as, the <ex>automatic</ex> feed of a lathe; <ex>automatic</ex> gas lighting; an <ex>automatic</ex> engine or switch; an <ex>automatic</ex> mouse.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; <as>as, <ex>automatic</ex> movements or functions</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Unconscious or <b>automatic</b> reasoning. <i>H. Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Automatic arts</col>, <cd>such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery.</cd></cs>

<i>Ure.</i>

<h1>Automatically</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw>Au`to*mat"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an automatic manner.</def>

<h1>Automatism</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw>Au*tom"a*tism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> A theory as to the activity of matter.</def>

<h1>Automaton</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw>Au*tom"a*ton</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Automata</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, E. <plw>Automatons</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. fr. Gr. <?/, neut. of <?/ self-moving; <?/ self + a root <ets>ma</ets>, <ets>man</ets>, to strive, think, cf. <?/ to strive. See <er>Mean</er>, <ets>v. i.</ets>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.</def>

<i>Huxley.</i>

<blockquote>So great and admirable an <b>automaton</b> as the world. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>These living <b>automata</b>, human bodies. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.</def>

<h1>Automatous</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw>Au*tom"a*tous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>automatus</ets>, Gr. <?/. See <er>Automaton</er>.]</ety> <def>Automatic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Automatous</i> organs."

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Automorphic</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw>Au`to*mor"phic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Auto-</ets> + Gr. <?/ for, shape.]</ety> <def>Patterned after one's self.</def>

<blockquote>The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is <b>automorphic</b>. <i>H. Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Automorphism</h1> <Xpage=103>

<hw>Au`to*mor"phism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Automorphic characterization.</def>

<i>H. Spenser.</i>