Mechanize v. t. (past & past part. mechanized; pres. part. mechanizing)
1.
To cause to be mechanical.
2.
To introduce machinery into (a process) in order to reduce human effort or improve uniformity or quality of the result; especially, To cause to be accomplished by a mechanical means which requires little or no human supervision; to automate.
3.
Hence: (Mil.) To equip (an armed force) with tanks or other vehicles.
... their souls (Philebus, cap. xvi., Laws, x.), and only permitted astronomical investigation so long as it abstained from blasphemy against these gods. And Aristotle in his Physics tells us that Zeus rains not in order that the corn may grow, but by necessity (ex anharchest). They tried to mechanize and rationalize God, but God ... — Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno
... in distress, and in debt, and trouble of every kind. Farm-labourers and other peasants, who combined a little poaching with their farming, and a little brawling and bibbing with their poaching, found themselves sooner or later in Mixen Lane. Rural mechanics too idle to mechanize, rural servants too rebellious to serve, drifted or ... — The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
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