mechanurgy

From mechano- +‎ -urgy

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈkænəd͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈkænəɹd͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)d͡ʒi

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^[1], page 14:

     We moderns in mechánurgy excel,
     And crafts whereof Greek history doth not tell

• “mechanurgy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.