artificious

Latin artificiosus.

artificious (comparative more artificious, superlative most artificious)

1. (obsolete) Using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by artfulness or skill

   Synonyms: dexterous, skillful

   Synonyms: artful, artificial, contrived, devised

   • 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:

     As for the hands, when she parted them into many fingers, and those of unequal length and bigness, she hath made them of all other organical parts the most proper artificious and workmanlike instruments

   • 1687, Sir William Temple, Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands:

     Upon their artificious and dilatory answers he immediately draws his forces together, and with an army, under the command of Spinola, marches towards Juliers.

• “artificious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.