unmechanize

From un- +‎ mechanize.

unmechanize (third-person singular simple present unmechanizes, present participle unmechanizing, simple past and past participle unmechanized)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To undo the mechanism of something.
   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 227:

     What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments, which has not fallen upon thy head, or ever thou camest into the world!

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “unmechanize”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “unmechanize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “unmechanize”, in Wordnik.