ARTIFICES

artifices

plural of artifice

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ARTIFICE

Ar"ti*fice, n. Etym: [L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice.]

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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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27 May 2025

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”

You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.