Word Meanings - ARTIFICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. 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 plots were constructed
Additional info about word: ARTIFICE
1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. 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 plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik. 4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. Note: Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry. Macaulay.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARTIFICE)
- Affectation
- Pretence
- artifice
- hypocrisy
- assumption
- simulation
- mannerism
- euphuism
- airs
- Art
- Science
- literature
- aptitude
- readiness
- adroitness
- skill
- dexterity
- cunning
- deceit
- duplicity
- tactics
- profession
- management
- trade
- business
- calling
- Cheat
- Deception
- fraud
- imposition
- trick
- illusion
- imposture
- swindle
- finesse
- lie
- fiction
- Chicanery
- Artifice
- subtlety
- sophistry
- subterfuge
- prevarication
- shift
- trickery
- dodge
- quibble
- mystification
- pettifogging
- underhandedness
- Counterfeit
- juggle
- fabrication
- pretense
- ruse
- sham
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ARTIFICE)
- Enlighten
- guide
- remunerate
- compensate
- undeceive
- disabuse
- Expose
- unmask
- detect
- Reason
- argue
- enunciate
- investigate
- discuss
- Fix
- fasten
- locate
- insert
- pitch
- plant
- place
Related words: (words related to ARTIFICE)
- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - SKILLFUL
1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - DETECTOR BAR
A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch. - ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - FINESSE
The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - ILLUSIONABLE
Liable to illusion. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.