A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.
Artful or skillful contrivance. His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik.
Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
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