Banausic
serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical:
architecture that was more banausic than inspired.
historical examples
the burghers began to tune the melodies of a new music: a banausic artisan song.
women of the teutonic nations hermann schoenfeld
adjective
merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
adj.
“merely mechanical,” coined 1845 from greek banausikos “pertaining to mechanics,” from banausos “artisan, mere mechanical,” hence (to the greeks) “base, ign-ble;” perhaps literally “working by fire,” from baunos “furnace, forge” (but klein dismisses this as folk etymology and calls it “of uncertain origin”).
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