mechanurgy

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Etymology

From mechano- +‎ -urgy

Pronunciation

Noun

mechanurgy (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The branch of science that deals with moving machines.
    • 1883 May 5, "Chordal", “Extracts from Chordal's Letters”, in American Machinist, volume 6, number 18, page 3:
      Recourse must be had to some positive mechanical contrivance Such a movement involves some of the finest problems in mechanurgy.
    • 1906 October 1, Reports of military observers attached to the armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War (part II), page 131:
      The character of the instruction given in the regular feldsher schools is indicated by the following curriculum, taken from official sources: Theology. / Russian language. / Latin. Surgery. / Desmurgy. / Mechanurgy. / Massage.
    • 1907, Edwin Sauter, Satires‎, page 14:
      We moderns in mechánurgy excel,
      And crafts whereof Greek history doth not tell

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