immechanical

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adjective

Not mechanical.

OriginEnglish mechanical ← Middle English mechanical ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? →
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Meanings

adjectiveimmechanical (comparative more immechanical, superlative most immechanical)

comparative more immechanical · superlative most immechanical

  1. obsoleteNot mechanical.

    But ev'n the admiſſion of ſuch an Hypotheſis removes us but one Step further from Immechanical Principles, for the Cauſe of the Motion of this ſubtile Fluid, vvhich is the Cauſe of Gravity, is it ſelf Immechanical.

    1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Physical Laws, and the Uniform Appearances of Nature. Law III.”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 51

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Latinim-
  6. Englishim-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*megʰ-der.?
  8. Ancient Greekμηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
  9. Ancient Greekμηχανικός (mēkhanikós)
  10. Latinmēchanicus
  11. Old Frenchmecanique
  12. Middle Englishmechanic
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  15. Middle Englishmechanical
  16. Englishmechanical
  17. Englishimmechanical

From im- + mechanical.

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APA

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Chicago

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