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1. (n.) deus ex machina
(in classical drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
2. deus ex machina
any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
Etymology: (1690–1700; < NL, lit., god from a machine (i.e., stage machinery from which a deity's statue was lowered))
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1. (noun) deus ex machina
any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty
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1. deus ex machina
the introduction in high matters of a merely external, material, or mechanical explanation instead of an internal, rational, or spiritual one, which is all a theologian does when he simply names God, and all a scientist does when he simply says Evolution (q. v.).
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