Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ME-CHAN'IC-AL-LY, adv.

1. According to the laws of mechanism; or good workmanship.
2. By physical force or power.
3. Acting by the laws of motion, without intelligence or design, or by the force of habit. We say, a man arrives to such perfection in playing on an instrument, that his fingers move mechanically. Mechanically turned or inclined, naturally or habitually disposed to use mechanical arts. Swift.