ARTIFICIALLY
artificially, unnaturally, by artificial means
(adverb) not according to nature; not by natural means; “artificially induced conditions”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
artificially (comparative more artificially, superlative most artificially)
In an artificial manner.
By or because of human effort.
Antonyms
• naturally
Source: Wiktionary
Ar`ti*fi"cial*ly, adv.
1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by
nature.
2. Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.]
The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.
3. Craftily; artfully. [Obs.]
Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
ARTIFICIAL
Ar`ti*fi"cial, a. Etym: [L. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. F.
artificiel. See Artifice.]
1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and
labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems,
salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.
2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "Artificial
tears." Shak.
3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] Shak.
4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
artificial grasses. Gibbon. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments
invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and
the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson.
– Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on
superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations
species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as
the Linnæan system.
– Artificial horizon. See under Horizon. Artificial light, any
light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.
– Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to
represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of
the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in
trigonometry, navigation, etc.
– Artificial numbers, logarithms.
– Artificial person (Law). See under Person.
– Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the
natural, tangents, etc. Hutton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition