Definition of Banausic

1. Adjective. (formal) ordinary and not refined. "He felt contempt for all banausic occupations"

Language type: Formality
Similar to: Ordinary

Definition of Banausic

1. Adjective. Mechanical; materialistic, uncultured. ¹

2. Adjective. utilitarian ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banausic

1. practical [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banausic

banana splits
banana tree
bananadine
bananaless
bananalike
bananaquit
bananaquits
bananas
bananas Foster
bananeries
bananery
banans
banat
banate
banats
banausic (current term)
banc
banch
banco
bancor
bancos
bancroftian filariasis
bancroftiasis
bancroftosis
bancs
band
band-aid
band-aid solution
band-aid solutions

Literary usage of Banausic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society (1771)
"These examples are among the most explicit we possess on the definition of the banausic arts.31 They show that the appellation banausic and its Latin ..."

2. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"'That work or art or science must be considered banausic, which unfits the body or mind of free men for the employment and practice of virtue. ..."

3. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1984)
"ciently emphasized that both of these thinkers have thrown free workmen into close proximity with slave labor by their attitude upon the " banausic " trades ..."

4. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1883)
"Aristotle means that knowledge of such arts does not make a man banausic ; but as the ... To be able to light your own fire is not banausic ; but to turn ..."

5. Commemorative address on the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the by William Charles Windeyer (1883)
"The contempt which they exhibited for the banausic arts has its counterpart in our days in that sneer for the bread and butter sciences which is too often ..."

6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Thus, the adult who seeks self-knowledge by introversion is banausic, and his system is at its best but one human document or return to the eternal "but ..."

7. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"engineering, others again for faculties still more banausic. It is, indeed, nothing less than pitiable to contemplate the chaos obtaining at the present ..."

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