Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, in psychology, the subject of automatism; one who writes, etc., automatically.
- noun One who makes automata.
- noun One who believes that animals (sometimes including man) are automata.
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- adjective Of or characterized by
automatism - noun One who performs
automatic writing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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English psychologists call an automatist, which is to say, a person who appears at times to lend her organism to beings imperceptible to our senses, in order to enable them to manifest themselves to us.
Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research Michael Sage 1897
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Keith Newstead is an "automatist" who makes the most amazing kinetic mechanical sculptures.
MAKE Magazine 2009
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With cultivated "automatist" spontaneity, he worked on raw canvas, copper, and the recently invented Masonite; employed gross materials, including sand and tar; made thoroughly abstract pictures; and hatched funky varieties of collage and assemblage, whose influence would extend to Robert Rauschenberg.
3quarksdaily 2008
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Don Imus was not the blind instrument of his superiors, even assuming that automatist young law professors might be (and might be forgiven for being so, a debatable proposition cf. E.g. Kyle.)
Balkinization 2007
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None of this highly specialized material was known to Mrs. Willett the automatist or to anyone else involved in this experiment.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Willett was the automatist, Lord Gerald Balfour the investigator.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Willett was the automatist, Lord Gerald Balfour the investigator.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Words or phrases are singled out that mean something special to the one claiming to communicate through the automatist.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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A medium suggests a go-between; automatist points to the involuntary side of the phenomenon; sensitive, to having a well-poised receptivity.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Words or phrases are singled out that mean something special to the one claiming to communicate through the automatist.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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