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artifice

[ ahr-tuh-fis ]

noun

  1. a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.

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  2. trickery; guile; craftiness.

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  3. cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness:

    a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance.

  4. a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient.


artifice

/ ˈɑ˳Ùɪ´Úɪ²õ /

noun

  1. a clever expedient; ingenious stratagem
  2. crafty or subtle deception
  3. skill; cleverness
  4. a skilfully contrived device
  5. obsolete.
    craftsmanship
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of artifice1

1525–35; < Anglo-French < Latin artificium craftsmanship, art, craftiness, equivalent to arti-, combining form of ars art 1 + -fic-, combining form of facere to do 1, make + -ium + -ium
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of artifice1

C16: from Old French, from Latin artificium skill, from artifex one possessed of a specific skill, from ars skill + -fex, from facere to make
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Synonym Study

See trick. See cunning.
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I think the artifice had reached a point of being inauthentic.

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Like everything else in the movie, it’s artifice that feigns at being fact.

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But how do you have, as Jomo would say, as little amount of artifice as possible?

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“You can throw a lot of money at visual effects, but usually the audience feels the artifice,†says Förderer.

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The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation.

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