- 1. n. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. Source: opted
- 2. n. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. Source: opted
- 3. n. Artful or skillful contrivance. Source: opted
- 4. n. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.] Source: opted
- 5. n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 7. n:100 n a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) Source: ecdict
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