Nov 212010
 

adj. Merely mechanical; routine; ordinary, not refined; used pejoratively.

contempt for the banausic occupations – T. S. Eliot:
“a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine).
being implicated in the banausic business of paid employment which the Greeks traditionally found so distasteful”

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