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artificially, adv.|ɑːtɪˈfɪʃəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
1. By art as distinguished from the operation of nature.
a. By artificial process.
b. In an artificial, factitious, or designed way; with deliberate design to produce a contemplated result.
a.1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., Cauterysacyon..is an operacyon made wt fyre artyfycyally in y⊇ body. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 35, I have artificially frozen all the said Liquor into a mass of Ice. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 368 The experiment of artificially congealing wetted snow. 1873Williamson Chem. §227 Alcohol can be built up artificially from its elements.
b.1586T. Rogers 39 Art. (1607) 93 A great learned man..(to whose acquaintance I was artificially brought). 1670in Somers Tracts I. 17 This Fear was artificially put into them, as I could easily perceive. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. ii. 48 Mercia has every appearance of having been artificially mapped out. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 16 Reflectively and artificially called by its inventor magenta.
2. In accordance with the rules of art, hence technically, artistically, in workmanlike manner; with much art, skilfully, ingeniously, cleverly. arch. or Obs. but still used in legal phraseology in the primary sense.
1528Roy Satire, A saynt. Even soche a one as paynters do paynt On walles and bordes artificially. 1543Recorde Gr. Arts (1646) 193 You have answered the question very artificially; and truly I commend you. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxx. i. 380 Stringed..instruments, fingered right artificially. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. viii. (1627) 105 To doe it artificially by Rule. 1612W. Martyn Youth's Instruc. 20 An artificially carued picture. 1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 170 How wisely and artificially their Members are formed. 1740Johnson Drake Wks. IV. 446 Baskets plaited so artificially that they held water. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. viii. 356, note, So artificially done, that they seemed natural. 1876J. Blackburn in Law Rep. Exch. Div. I. 161 The instrument is not in all respects artificially drawn.
b. (With something of the next sense): With skill directed to hide or deceive.
1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. vi. (1743) 416 Plaids..which they manage so artificially, as to supply the defect of drawers and breeches. 1715Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 13 A cupboard that was very artificially hid. 1761Smollett Gil Blas v. i. (1802) II. 164 A little red beard of horse-hair, which he fixed so artificially to his ears, that one would have sworn it was the natural produce of his chin.
†3. With or by artifice; craftily, cunningly, cleverly. (Generally in bad sense.) Obs.
1573G. Harvey Common-pl. Bk. (1884) 31 So openly favur and incurrage the on, and so artificially and cunningly over⁓whart the other. 1622Bacon Hist. Hen. VII, Wks. 1860. 312 Having..given artificially, for serving his own turn, some hopes..to marry Anne. 1679Stillingfl. Serm. Whitehall 7 Mar. 46 It doth mischief secretly, spitefully and artificially. 1715Burnet Own Time I. 205 Sharp dissembled so artificially. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 81 Justice is often artificially eluded. |