Banausic

//bəˈnɔːsɪk//

Synonyms for "banausic" (59 found)

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French

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  • banausique adj (of or pertaining to technical matters)
  • banausique adj (uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian)

Hungarian

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  • földhözragadt adj (uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian)
  • műszaki adj (of or pertaining to technical matters)

Latin

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  • banausicus adj (of or pertaining to technical matters)
  • banausicus adj (uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian)

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The true "Gentleman," they [the ruling classes] assert, will far more easily acquire the technical knowledge necessary for an officer, a judge, or for the administration of some high post, than one who has been brought up in some banausic speciality, will be able to gain the general educational foundation essential for a good ruler.

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It was the Greeks who taught us the dignity of leisure; it is from them that we inherit the perception that the highest life is the life of contemplation. But this respect for leisure, with the Greeks, was accompanied by a contempt for the banausic occupations.

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[T]he indifference or contempt which the ruling minorities felt towards "banausic" pursuits or technological gadgetry – an attitude rooted in the literary and oratorical bias of their education.

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After 1812, and when the worst portion of the Tories got enthroned in the supremacy, when the Banausic principle (we must coin a word from the most expressive of languages to express all its intense vulgarity) began to obtain, […] Lord Grey [Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey] did what might have been expected from so high a gentleman. […] He opposed but not incessantly, angrily, nor with constant faction, but in stately speeches and solemn protests.

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