First Known Use: 1845
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banausic
adjective ba·nau·sic \bə-ˈnȯ-sik, -zik\
Definition of BANAUSIC
: relating to or concerned with earning a living —used pejoratively <contempt for the banausic occupations — T. S. Eliot>; also : utilitarian, practical <such mundane and banausic considerations as comfort and durability — G. B. Boyer>
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Origin of BANAUSIC
Greek banausikos of an artisan, nonintellectual, vulgar, from banausos artisan
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