单词 | banausic |
释义 | banausicadj. Merely mechanical, proper to a mechanic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > not involving or requiring skill > merely mechanical banausic1845 banausian1901 1845 G. Smythe in Oxf. & Cambr. Rev. Aug. 206 When the Banausic principle (we must coin a word from the most expressive of languages to express all its intense vulgarity) began to obtain. 1876 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. vi. 227 Alleged that the teaching music as a manual art was banausic and degrading. 1901 J. C. Collins Ephemera Crit. 68 The one instinct in them which is not quite banausic being the conscientious thoroughness with which they impart what they have been taught. 1957 London Mag. July 57 A sensitive, self conscious creature..in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1845 |
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