Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Automatic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Automatic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete form of
automatic .
Etymologies
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Latin automatus, Ancient Greek. See automaton.
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Examples
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Then mentions the child poverty targets, and gets a automatous cheer from the benches behind him.
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Then mentions the child poverty targets, and gets a automatous cheer from the benches behind him.
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Conversely, if NP's became completely automatous, then they can bear the liability of their work directly and would really know why us docs are constantly CYA.
Rant Time in the ER 1 Dinosaur 2008
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They who are merely carried on by the wheel of such inclinations, without the hand and guidance of sovereign reason, are but the automatous [70] part of mankind, rather lived than living, or at least underliving themselves.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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