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Definition of Automatists
1. automatist [n] - See also: automatist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Automatists
Literary usage of Automatists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventurings in the Psychical by Henry Addington Bruce (1914)
"That automatists " read the mind " of their sitters, or draw upon the contents
of their own subconsciousness in obtaining the facts which they give out as ..."
2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the
mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the automatists ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"For automatists must concede that the evidence of causation in the region of mind
is at least as cogent as it is in the region of matter, seeing that the ..."
4. Spiritism and Religion, a Moral Study by Johan Liljencrants (1918)
"(automatists ask, 'What is that?') French ('fane'). Bleeding hearts can not be
staunched and the voice of death echoes through the brain with palling ..."
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