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1674. Boyle, Grounds Corpusc. Philos., 13. The like unmechanical principles and agents.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 660. Deep Pools, which could never have been searched by these unmechanical people.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., III. xxiv. 21. It is absurd in philosophers to use unmechanical principles, where mechanical ones will answer the purpose.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 368. This unmechanical and desultory mode of operation.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, II. 853. The unmechanical Spaniards still work their mines … as the … Iberians did.
1865. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxvii. Unscrupulous, even doubting thoughts, they might be; yet real, unmechanical.
