artificious

English

Etymology

Latin artificiosus.

Adjective

artificious (comparative more artificious, superlative most artificious)

1. (obsolete) Using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

   Synonyms: artful, artificial, contrived, devised

   • 1687, Sir William Temple, Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands:

     Upon their artificious and dilatory answers he immediately draws his forces together, and with an army, under the command of Spinola, marches towards Juliers.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “artificious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)