banausic
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Merely mechanical; characteristic of mechanics or a mechanic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adjective Mechanical; materialistic, uncultured.
- adjective Utilitarian.
Examples
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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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The term "banausic" comes from philosophy and concerns "the illiberal or vulgar arts," subjects with which Vidal has frequently dealt.
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The gainful occupations, or any occupations pursued for gain, were "banausic," which meant that they had an effect opposite to that of cultivation.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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So unromantic, so banausic, so thoroughly unappealing, yet for all that imponderably heroic.
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The Greeks preferred the theoretical, the leisurely, to the busy banausic, or mechanical, life of labor.
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The Genoese, cavalier, are a banausic race, and penurious at that; they will go where the devil cannot, which is between the oak and the rind; opportunity given, they would sneak the breeches off a highlander: they divide their time between commercialism and a licentiousness of which, sordid as it is, they habitually beat down the price.
Note
The word 'banausic' comes ultimately from a Greek word meaning 'forge'.
