Artifice: 1) Technical skill; art; workmanship; the making of something by art and or skill. 2) Mode or style of workmanship. 30 Skill in designing and employing expedients; adress, cunning, trickery. 4) An ingenious expedient; cunning trick; a device, a contrivance. 5) A work of art. 6) The products of human skill as opposed to what is natural.
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 Ed.
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