Artificious

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by artfulness or skill obsolete

    "As for the hands, when she parted them into many fingers, and those of unequal length and bigness, she hath made them of all other organical parts the most proper artificious and workmanlike instruments"

Example

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"As for the hands, when she parted them into many fingers, and those of unequal length and bigness, she hath made them of all other organical parts the most proper artificious and workmanlike instruments"

Etymology

Latin artificiosus.

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