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Definition of Mechanical man
1. Noun. An automaton that resembles a human being.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mechanical Man
Literary usage of Mechanical man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"... Now each mechanical man Which was a rare thing then, When this old cap was new.
Hath a cupboard of plate for a show ; Then bribery was unborn, ..."
2. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1886)
"47) :—' I am sorry for John Hall's death, especially if it be like to embarrass
the affairs of your Press wth farther difficulties : a mechanical man that ..."
3. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1884)
"The natural man, being endowed with an inventive genius, has, as it were, formed
another man in his own image—the automaton or mechanical man, ..."
4. Dominion Dental Journal (1907)
"It is true I left out the mechanical man, and probably that kind of assistance
may be pretty valuable in the office; but I omitted that, thinking, perhaps, ..."
5. Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture by Arthur Hayden (1912)
"We took not such delight In cups of silver fine; None under the degree of knight
In plate drank beer or wine; Now each mechanical man Hath a cupboard of ..."
6. The Reaper: Argument of William H. Seward, in the Circuit Court of the by William Henry Seward (1854)
"He, therefore, invented a mechanical man to perform that labor, and attached ...
"Wherever the machine goes now, there that mechanical man goes before it, ..."
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