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banausic, a.|bəˈnɔːsɪk|
[ad. Gr. βαναυσικός of or for mechanics, f. βάναυσος working by fire, mechanical, f. βαῦνος furnace, forge.]
Merely mechanical, proper to a mechanic.
1845G. Smythe in Oxf. & Camb. Rev. Aug. 206 When the Banausic principle (we must coin a word from the most expressive of languages to express all its intense vulgarity) began to obtain. 1876Grote Eth. Fragm. vi. 227 Alleged that the teaching music as a manual art was banausic and degrading. 1901J. C. Collins Ephemera Critica 68 The one instinct in them which is not quite banausic being the conscientious thoroughness with which they impart what they have been taught. 1957London Mag. July 57 A sensitive, self conscious creature..in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment. |