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autogenous (a-toj'e-uus), a, [< Gr. airoynw/f, auto-inoculable (a'to-in-ok'u-la-bl), . [< Or. 
elf-produced, < aij-dc, self, + yfvnr, kind, race, Bfrrof, self, + iiioriiltthti:'] Possessing the power 
offspring: see i/tnutx, -ijiMtus.] 1. Self-pro- of auto-inoculntion; capable of being propa- 
duced; self-generated; coming forth indepcn- gated by auto-inoculation: as, an auto-inoculable 
dently. Specifically, In anat., i-mliim-ncnis: applied to disease. 
those processes or parts of a bone whii-li arise from an autO-inOCUlatlon (a*to-in-ok-u-la shon), w. [< 
independent or srparale renter of ossiliration. as ilistiti 
Kin-died from nine I-MWIIOIU outgrowth*. Thus, the 
cpiphyses of a bone air HI//O.VIIOM; kpOphfM may be 
ritlirr iiitl'iil'-iiiin^ or rr</' KHIK. 
The centrum anil several of the apophyscs of a vertebra 
automatons 
Mr went mi rmvinu iilly, luill "<'' ni">' 
Kin,!, Mill mi tin' Floss, vi. l.'I. 
We know that a frequently repeated act of muscular 
kill Dually comes t be done aliiio-,t outomaMufiv and 
itli little intervention of eonseloiiHic.-s. .SViVinv, IV. 473. 
2. By automatic means ; by its own action. 
Vn ini/'iiii'itically working machine. 
Set. Ann;:, N. S., LV. 55. 
ritlirr uponhyrtCH lire exogenous. 
Owm, 
2. Same as (iitlitijcitic. 
Also i 
out thc'nsc of a special" solder. It is performed by mean-. 
of the airohyilrogen or oxjrbjrdngHI blowpipe and by elec- 
tricity. 
autogenously (a-toj'e-nus-li), adv. 1. In an 
autogenous manner. 
The anterior, or more properly inferior, bar of the trans- 
verse process of the seventh, and occasionally of some of 
the other cervical vertebras in Man, is autoyenoutly devel- 
oped. I''. " t'loiet'r, Osteoloxy, p. 20. 
2. By the autogenous process of soldering. 
Gr. oi'rof, self, + inontlntion.'] ' The inoculation 
of a healthy part of the body with the virus 
from a diseased part of the same person, as from 
a chancroid. automaticity (a"t6-ma-tis'i-ti), it. 
auto-insufflator (a-t.i-in'siif-la-tor), . Gr. O f being automatic'; automatic acti 
airof, self, + Initiator.] An instrument used Human Body (:!<! edj, p. 23. 
for administering to one's self a medicinal automatism (a-tom'ii-tizm), . [< initnniaton + 
powder. -ism. Cf. Gr. aitro/uitia/i6f, that which happens 
autokinesyt, . [< LGr. aiiTomvr/aia, Gr. OVTOKI- o f itself, a chance.] 1. Automatic or in volun- 
vr/aic, self-movement, < airomw/rof, self-moved: try action: inpatltol., sometimes specifically 
Automatically keeping its temperature nniforin. 
Jour. Frnnkliii /-'., CXXI., .siipp. 7. 
The st:iti, 
ug automatic; automatic action. .Martin, 
Human Body (3d ed.), }). -M. 
see autokinetical.] Self-movement ; spontane- 
ous motion. Ciulicorth. 
autokineticalt (ato-ki-net'i-kal), a. [< Gr. 
auTOKii'r/TtKof, < avTOKtvi/rof, self-moved, < airof, 
self , + Kivelv, move : see kinetic.] Self -moving. 
Hi: II. More. 
autolaryngoscope (a'to-la-ring'go-skop), . 
[< Gr. avrof, self, + loryHfOMOp*.] An instru- 
This battery is constructed of a case of insnlite, having ment, consisting of a combination of mirrors, 
a lid of the same material auto<ienmuly soldered in. by which one may inspect his own larynx. L. 
J. W. Queen, Elect. Catalogue, 1883, p. 18. jf Knight. 
autogeny (a-toj'e-ni), n. [< Gr. avroyeviK (see autolaryngOSCOpy (a'to-lar-iug-gos'ko-pi), n. 
autiigcnous): see -geny."] Autogenesis; autog- ^ Q,. P ,j;, rof) 8e Tf, + laryngoncopy.] The in- 
ony; spontaneous generation. spection of one's own larynx by means of an 
autogony (a-tog'o-ni), n. [< Gr. amoyitvrx;, self- autolaryngoscope. 
produced, self-producing, <ai>rof, self, + -yovoc, au tolatry (a-tol'a-tri), . [< Gr. aiVof, self, + 
produced: see -</oi/.] The generation of simple / ar/)e ,' a) worship.} Self -worship, 
organisms from a lifeless fluid; abiogenesis. autology (a-tof'o-ji), n. [< Gr. at/rof, self, + 
autograph (a'to-graf), a. and n. [< F. auto- .^j,/ a> I Myeiv, 'speak: see -ology.] The sci- 
iirajihr, < L. OUtOffrapMlf, < Or. cwoypoipor, writ- en tific study of one's self. 
ten with one's own hand, < oi/rof, self, + ypaQttv, AutolytUS (a-tol'i-tus), . [NL., < Gr. airrof, 
write.] I. a. Written by one's self; in one's ge if ; .f /trrd f , verbal adj. of f.vtiv, loose.] A ge- 
; 
nus o f ehsetopodous annelids, of the famiiy Syl- 
Atttolyttts comHtns. 
own handwriting : as, an autograph letter. 
II. n. [< P. autographe, < LL. autographum. ,] 
1. A person's own handwriting; something 
written by a person's own hand ; an original 
manuscript or signature. 
Autographs of famous names were to be seen in faded 
ink on some of their fly leaves. Hawthorne, Old Manse, I. 
2. An autographic press (which see, under Hda , . a 8ynonym o S j fo . ^. ,j V er U an asexual 
jiri'HS). form, the opposite sexual forms of which have been called 
autograph (a'to-graf), t: t. [< autograph, n.J Polybostrichu* and Sacconercit. 
1. To write with one's own hand. 2. To write automat, An erroneously assumed singular 
one's autograph on or in. 3. To copy or pro- o f automata. See automaton. 
duce in autogranh, or by an autographic pro- it is an automa, runs under water, 
cess. See autoy'raphic. With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail 
Announcements and notices of various kinds, whether Made like an 8U P lr V mu m o,. nl . / N(>W8 m i 
printed, engraved, lithographed, or autographed. '* "' L 
U. S. Postal Guide, July, 1879. automallte, - See automolite. 
It contains 80 autographed pages out of the 1,100 of automata, M. Plural of automaton. 
which the whole work will consist. automatalt (a-tom'a-tal), a. [< automaton + 
Tn^r-* American a,* Oriental L t t ' Record, X.. t fl , -, Sa J e as ^owafec. [Rare.] 
autographalt (a-tog ra-fal), a. [< autograph automa th (ft'to-math), n. [< Gr. avrouaW,^, 
+ -al.] Autographic. Bennet. self-taught, < airoc, self, + uavBaveiv, uadeiv, 
autographic (a-to-graf'ik), a. ^.autograph + , earn . | ee ' mathen ; atics ,\ 
*c; = V.auto a mphique.] 1 . Pertaining to or tau _ ht rR are .] 
of the nature of an autograph; contained m ^mal^ (a-to-mat'ik), a. 
or furnished by ones own handwriting: as, 
autographic authority; autographic evidence. 
2. Relating to or used in the process of au- 
tography: asj autographic ink; autographic 
One who is self- 
_ JGr. 
self-moving' (see automaton), + -ic.] 1. Acting 
as an automaton, (a) Having the power of self- 
motion ; self-acting : as, automatic machinery, (o) Done 
B .- r - rf . , ._,. , ^ unconsciously or from force of habit ; mechanical, as op- 
paper. 3. Self-recording : applied to a form of posed to voluntary, 
telegraph. See^below.-Auto^rapMc^press. See ^.Conducted or earned on by self-acting ma- 
press. Autographic process. ()In the fiiui art, any 
process by means of which an artist's work is exactly pre- 
served in mechanical reproductions, as in an autotype or 
a photo-engraving. (6) A general term applied to those 
chemical and mechanical processes in which a writing or 
drawingis made with a peculiar Ink, and then transferred 
to the stone, plate, or other matrix from which it is to 
be printed. Autographic telegraph, an instrument for 
transmitting a telegraphic despatch written in Insulating 
ink upon a metallic paper, and reproducing it with abso- 
lute exactness on anotner prepared paper. The instru- 
ment may be used for transmitting portraits or other fig- 
ures, diagrams, etr. 
autographical (a-to-graf'i-kal), a. Same as au- 
autographically (a-to-graf 'i-kal-i), adv. In an 
autographic manner; by means of autographic 
writings; in autograph. 
And had "shaken hands autographically" with him 
It is in our modern cotton and flax mills that automatic 
operations are displayed to most advantage. 
Ure, Diet., I. 274. 
3. Inphysiol.: (a) Not voluntary; not under 
the control of, or not effected by, volition : said 
of certain muscular actions. 
Let me briefly notice some of our other automatic ac- 
tions. In the act of swallowing, which properly begins at 
the back of the throat, the "swallow" lays hold of the 
food or the drink brought to it by the muscles of the 
applied to such purposeless actions as are often 
exhibited by patients after an epileptic flt. 
In considering the body as the instrument of the mind, 
I shall show you, first, the large amount of mtOBMtlra 
in the human body. W. B. Carpenter. 
The imperfections in sensation, and the inhibition on 
the moral faculties im|>osed by alcoholic anesthesia, so 
depress the mental powers as to compel them to assume 
the charaetcristk'S of autoiatwH ; but the semblances 
of automation are to similar to conscious rationality, 
that they disguise the actual Incompetency of the moral 
powers. Alien, and fieurol., VI. 40. 
2. The doctrine that animals, especially those 
below man, are automata, in the sense that all 
the phenomena exhibited by them are results 
of physical laws; especially, the doctrine of 
Descartes that animals are devoid of conscious- 
ness. 3. The faculty of independently origi- 
nating action or motion. [From the original 
sense of automaton.} N. E. D. 
automatist (a-tom'a-tist). . [< automaton + 
-ist. Cf. LGr. avTofiaTtarj/f, one who refers all 
things to chance.] 1. One who makes auto- 
mata. 2. One who believes that animals 
(sometimes including man) are automata. See 
automatism, 2. 
Though not a declared outomatwt, however, Mr. Spencer 
is by virtue of his general philosophy a necessarian. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XX. 768. 
automatize (a-tom'a-tiz), i: t. ; pret. and pp. 
automatized, ppr. automatizing. [< automaton 
+ -ize. Cf. Gr. ai>ro/i<mfv, act of one's self, 
introduce the agency of chance, happen by 
chance.] To make an automaton or a self- 
acting machine of. 
A God-created man, all but abnegating the character of 
man ; forced to exist, automatised, mummy-wise, ... as 
Gentleman or Gigman. Carlyle, Diamond Necklace, I. 
automaton (a-tom'a-ton), n.; pi. automata, 
automatons\(-i&, -tonz). [Formerly also autom- 
atum, < L. automaton, automatum, < Gr. aiir6fia- 
TOV, neut. of avr6/MTO(, acting of one's self, self- 
moving, spontaneous, < avr6f, self, + "/jarof 
(> ftareveiv, seek, strive to do), verbal adj. of 
y/*ua (perf . /tif^oa), strive after, move.] 1. That 
which is self -moving, or has the power of spon- 
taneous movement, but is not conscious. 
So great and admirable an automaton as the world. 
Boyle, Works, V. 251. 
Specifically 2. A self-acting machine, or one 
wnich is actuated in such a manner as to carry 
on for some time certain movements without 
the aid of external impulse, in this respect clocks 
and watches, with a vast number of other machines, may 
lie denominated automata ; but the term more specifically 
denotes an apparatus in which the purposely concealed 
power is made to imitate the voluntary or mechanical mo- 
tions of living beings, such as men, horses, birds, fishes, etc. 
A self-adjusting machine, containing the immediate 
conditions of its action within itself, is what is properly 
understood by an automaton. Huxley, Crayfish, p. 127. 
3. A living being acting mechanically or as a 
mere machine, especially without conscious- 
ness ; a person or an animal whose actions are 
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food or the drink brought to it by me muscles 01 tne ". : " - - 
mouth and carries this down into the stomach. We are purely involuntary or mechanical, nee bestial 
quite unconscious of its passage thither unless we have 
taken a larger morsel or something hotter or colder than 
ordinary. This is an instance of purely automatic action. 
W. B. Carpenter. 
In animals, too, to a far greater extent than In plants, is 
the automatic activity which always resides in protoplasm 
itself transmitted by the mechanism of the organization 
across the Atlantic. D. Hill, Life of Irving, p. 160. to different parts of the organism or to the whole of it. 
L. F. W, 
Ward, Dynam. Sociol., I. 353. 
(6) Not reflex: said, for example, of certain 
activities of ganglion-cells Automatic brake. 
autography (a-tog'ra-fi), n. [< autograph + -y ; 
= F. (HOograpMeJ "1. The act of writing with 
one's own hand; autographic writing. 2. 
That department of diplomatics, or the study S3te Jgg^^?5S 
and decipherment of old writings, which is under Aamwitr). Automatic theory. Same as automa- 
concerned with autographs. 3. A process in twin, 2. 
lithography by which copies of a writing, draw- automatical (a-to-mat'i-kal), a. 1. Same as 
ing, etc., are produced in facsimile. automatic. 2. Having reference to or con- 
autoicous (a-toi'kus), a. Same as autoxious. nected with automatic things, 
auto-inoculability (a*t6-in-ok'u-la-biri.-ti), . automatically (a-to-mat'i-kal-i), adv. 1. In 
[< auto-iiiofiilable : see -Mftiy.J Capacity for an automatic manner; mechanically; uncon- 
auto-iuoculation. sciously. 
automaton, below. 
Obedience, 
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, 
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame 
A mechanized automaton. Shelley, Queen Mali, iii. 
4. A person who acts in a monotonous routine 
manner, without active intelligence, especially 
without being fully aware of what he is doing. 
Automaton balance, a machine for weighing plan- 
chets and coin, and sorting the pieces automatically, ac- 
cording to their weight, as full, light, or heavy. Bestial 
posed to lie devoid of consciousness and sensibility. Spir- 
itual automaton, a mind not possessing free will, but 
subject to necessity. 
automatons* (a-tom'a-tus), a. [< Gr. amtiuaroc,, 
automatic (see automaton), + -oiw.] Auto- 
matic. 
Clocks or automaton* organs, whereby we now distin- 
guish of time, have found no mention In any ancient 
writers. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 18. 
