Definition of Artifecial
Ar`ti*fi"cial (&?;), a. [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 sines, tangents, etc.
Hutton.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Man-made; of artifice.
The flowers were artificial, and he thought them rather tacky.
- False, misleading.
Her manner was somewhat artificial.
- Unnatural.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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