Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a machine or machines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to machines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to
machines . - adjective In the manner or style of a
machine .
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Examples
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Further, it may be believed that saleswomen will not forever acquiesce in pursuing their trade in utterly machinal activity, without any common expression of their common position.
Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915
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Young, he is an organism ripening to the set mechanic diurnal round, and while so he needs all the angels to hold watch over him that he grow straight and healthy, and fit for what machinal duties he may have to perform "...
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Young, he is an organism ripening to the set mechanic diurnal round, and while so he needs all the angels to hold watch over him that he grow straight and healthy, and fit for what machinal duties he may have to perform "...
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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Young, he is an organism ripening to the set mechanic diurnal round, and while so he needs all the angels to hold watch over him that he grow straight and healthy, and fit for what machinal duties he may have to perform "...
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868
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