“automatous”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

automatous

释义

automatous, a.|ɔːˈtɒmətəs|
[f. Gr. αὐτόµατος (see automaton) + -ous.]
1. Acting spontaneously; having power of self-motion.
1769W. Jackson in Month. Rev. XLII. 171 Their great, ineffable, autocratorical, automatous author.1808Knox & Jebb Corr. I. 427, I long to be set at work, but I am not automatous: I need to be wound up.1871Farrar Witn. Hist. i. 36 He may accept the nebular hypothesis, but..must he not admit that the fluid haze was not automatous?
2. Of the nature of an automaton:
a. ‘self-acting’ mechanically;
b. acting involuntarily without conscious determination.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xviii. (1686) 212 Clocks or Automatous organs.1682― Chr. Mor. (1756) 34 They who are merely carried on by the wheel of such inclinations are but the automatous part of mankind.1867W. Smith Lat.-Eng. Dict., Automatarius..of or pertaining to an automaton, automatous.

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