banausic

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They used the term banausic for the low-cast, cringing souls involved in the making of things.

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  1. adjective Merely mechanical; routine: "a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine).
  2. adjective Of or relating to a mechanic.

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  1. Greek banausikos, from banausos, mechanic.

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  1. from Greek βαναυσικός, of or for mechanics, from βαναυσία, the practice of a mechanical art, the habits of a mechanic, from βάναυσος, mechanical, from βαῡνος, a furnace, forge.
 

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