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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.

Noun.

The maker of machines, or one skilled in mechanics.

mechanist ‎(plural mechanists)

A person who takes a mechanical view
- 2009, January 16, “David Brooks”, in An Economy of Faith and Trust:
  The economic spirit of a people cannot be manipulated in as simple-minded a fashion as the Keynesian mechanists imagine.
(archaic) A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.