"banausic" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "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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          "ref": "1951 September 13, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Virgil and the Christian World”, in The Listener, volume 46, London: British Broadcasting Corporation, →OCLC, page 412, column 2; republished in On Poetry and Poets, 1st Noonday paperbound edition, New York, N.Y.: The Noonday Press, a subsidiary of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1961 (1969 printing), →OCLC, page 141",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1979, John Bowle, A History of Europe: A Cultural and Political Survey, London: Secker and Warburg; Heinemann, page 37",
          "text": "[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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          "ref": "1845 August, “Art. VII.—Etudes sur les Orateurs. Par Timon. Bruxelles. 1834.”, in The Oxford and Cambridge Review, volume I, London: William Pickering; Oxford: J. Vincent; Cambridge: J. T. Walters, →OCLC, page 206",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1957, Lawrence Durrell, “Part I”, in Justine, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co., published May 1960, →OCLC, page 76",
          "text": "[H]ow graceful and accurate a portrait of Alexandria he manages to convey; Alexandria and its women. […] One could not expect more from an intruder of gifts who almost by mistake pierced the hard banausic shell of Alexandria and discovered himself.",
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          "ref": "2001, Rupert Woodfin, Judy Groves, illustrator, “Plato’s Condemnation of Art”, in Richard Appignanesi, editor, Introducing Aristotle (Introducing …), Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: Icon Books; [United States]: Totem Books, published 2002, page 152",
          "text": "Not only do poets and artists “tell lies”, not only is art a banausic bad habit, but, worse yet, it ignites desires and passions that prevent us from being the calm intellectual observers required of well-behaved citizens.",
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          "ref": "2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, London: Penguin Books; republished London: Penguin Books, 2004, page 456",
          "text": "But how could man respect himself when he was always being brought down to earth by the most banausic things?",
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          "ref": "2007, Philip Howard, “Modern Manners”, in The Times, London; republished in “How Not to Put Your Foot in It”, in Modern Manners: The Essential Guide to Correct Behaviour and Etiquette, London: The Robson Press, 2013",
          "text": "People, upon first meeting me, ask: ‘Do you rent or buy?’ I find this impertinent. […] You could fake philosophical unconcern, implying that such banausic matters are best left to your estate agent and factor: ‘I quite forget: my people look after such things.’",
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          "text": "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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          "text": "[H]ow graceful and accurate a portrait of Alexandria he manages to convey; Alexandria and its women. […] One could not expect more from an intruder of gifts who almost by mistake pierced the hard banausic shell of Alexandria and discovered himself.",
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          "text": "People, upon first meeting me, ask: ‘Do you rent or buy?’ I find this impertinent. […] You could fake philosophical unconcern, implying that such banausic matters are best left to your estate agent and factor: ‘I quite forget: my people look after such things.’",
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      "word": "műszaki"
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