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artifice
(encz) | artifice,rafinovanost n: Zdeněk Brož |
artifice
(encz) | artifice,trik n: Zdeněk Brož |
Artifice
(gcide) | Artifice \Ar"ti*fice\, n. [L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer;
ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice.]
1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
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2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
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The material universe . . . in the artifice of God,
the artifice of the best Mechanist. --Cudworth.
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3. Artful or skillful contrivance.
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His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much
artifice. --Craik.
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4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
Note: [Now the usual meaning.]
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Those who were conscious of guilt employed
numerous artifices for the purpose of averting
inquiry. --Macaulay.
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artifice
(wn) | artifice
n 1: a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) [syn:
ruse, artifice] |
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artifice
(encz) | artifice,rafinovanost n: Zdeněk Brožartifice,trik n: Zdeněk Brož |
artificer
(encz) | artificer,řemeslník n: Zdeněk Brožartificer,zbrojíř n: Zdeněk Brož |
Artificer
(gcide) | Artificer \Ar*tif"i*cer\, n. [Cf. F. artificier, fr. LL.
artificiarius.]
1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose
occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular
kind, as a silversmith.
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2. One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or
framer. "Artificer of fraud." --Milton.
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The great Artificer of all that moves. --Cowper.
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3. A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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4. (Mil.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter,
etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades,
etc., in a military laboratory.
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Syn: Artisan; artist. See Artisan.
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artifice
(wn) | artifice
n 1: a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) [syn:
ruse, artifice] |
artificer
(wn) | artificer
n 1: someone who is the first to think of or make something
[syn: inventor, discoverer, artificer]
2: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn:
craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]
3: an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and
machine guns etc. [syn: armorer, armourer, artificer] |
ARTIFICER
(bouvier) | ARTIFICERS. Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily
labor. Those who are masters of their arts. Cunn. Dict. h.t. Vide Art.
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