sɪk, -zɪk adjective
serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical: architecture that was more banausic than inspired.
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| —adj | |
| merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian | |
| [C19: from Greek banausikos for mechanics, from baunos forge] | |
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Banausic
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banausic
"merely mechanical," coined 1845 from Gk. banausikos "pertaining to mechanics," from banausos "artisan, mere mechanical," hence (to the Greeks) "base, ignoble;" perhaps lit. "working by fire," from baunos "furnace, forge" (but Klein dismisses this as folk etymology and calls it "of uncertain origin").
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