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artifice definition

ar·ti·fice (ärt′ə fis)

noun

  1. skill or ingenuity
  2. a clever expedient
  3. trickery or craft
  4. a sly or artful trick

Etymology: OFr < L artificium, craft < artifex, artist, master of a trade < ars, art + facere, do

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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