automatize (atomatiz)

t.; pret. and pp. automatized, ppr. automatizing. [ A God-created-man, all but abnegating the character of man; forced to exist, automatised , mummy-wise, Gentleman or Gigman. Carlyle , Diamond Necklace, i. as automaton (a-tom'a-ton), n.; pl. automata, automatons (-tä, tonz). [Formerly also autom atum, taneous movement, but is not conscious. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle , Works, V. 251. Specifically-2. A self-acting machine, or one which is actuated in such a manner as to carry on for some time certain movements without the aid of external impulse. In this respect clocks and watches, with a vast number of other machines, may be denominated automata; but the term more specifically denotes an apparatus in which the purposely concealed power is made to imitate the voluntary or mechanical motions of living beings, such as men, horses, birds, fishes, etc. A self-adjusting machine, containing the immediate conditions of its action within itself, is what is properly understood by an automaton . Huxley , Crayfish, p. 127. 3. A living being acting mechanically or as a mere machine, especially without consciousne ; a person or an animal whose actions are purely involuntary or mechanical. See bestial automaton , below. Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton . Shelley, Queen Mab, iii. 4. A person who acts in a monotonous routine manner, without active intelligence, especially without being fully aware of what he is doing. - Automaton balance, a machine for weighing planchets and coin, and sorting the pieces automatically, according to their weight, as full, light, or heavy. - Bestial automaton, in the Cartes i an philosophy, a brute, as supposed to be devoid of consciousne and sensibility. - Spiritual automaton, a mind not po e ing free will, but subject to nece ity. automat oust (a-tom'a-tus), a. [ Clocks or automatous organs, whereby we now distinguish of time, have found no mention in any ancient writers. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 18. IMG:content-1431.png:[blocks in formation] Our authorities are still in the dark as to what can actually be done with automobile torpedoes. Sci. Amer. Supp., XXII. 9128.