Thesaurus: artifice

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1. n. A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
2. n. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
3. n. Artful or skillful contrivance.
4. n. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
5. n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
6. 1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.] 2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth. 3. Artful or skillful contrivance. His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik. 4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. Note: [Now the usual meaning.] Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry. Macaulay.
7. n:100 n a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)