单词 | artisan |
释义 | artisann. 1. A worker in a skilled trade, a craftsperson; (in later use) esp. one utilizing traditional or non-mechanized methods.Formerly often taken as typifying a social class intermediate between property-owners and wage labourers. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman wright?a695 craftyeOE craftimanOE craftmanc1275 wroughtc1275 master-mana1325 mister mana1325 craftsmana1382 man of craft1389 artificera1393 handcraftman?c1480 handcraftsman1485 mechanic1509 handcrafta1525 handicraftsman1530 artisana1538 handicraftmana1544 handicraft1547 artsman1551 artist1563 mechanician1570 tradesmana1591 mechanical1600 mechanist1606 Daedal?1614 blue apron1629 Daedalus1631 crafter1643 fitter1648 mystery-man1671 toolsman1821 fundi1860 tradie1912 craftspersona1917 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 105 Few artysanys of gud occupatyon. 1580 J. Hay Certain Demandes in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 37 Tailyeours, skinnars and wther artisans. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Esprit The Germans..are better Artisans then Artists, better at handy-crafts then at head-craft. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) ii. 178 French Mechanicks swarmed in England, to the great prejudice of English Artisans. 1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 225 The Artisants here have wonderful Skill. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 145. ⁋1 The meanest artisan..contributes more to the accommodation of life, than the profound scholar. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 420 We pass from the weavers of cloth to a different class of artisans. 1882 Cent. Mag. July 464/2 He [sc. William Morris]..has followed his natural bent and striven to be a highly educated First Artisan rather than a fifth-rate Royal Academician. 1883 Harper's Mag. June 148/1 That hitherto unregarded mass of Englishmen—merchants, tradesmen, artisans, farmers, laborers, and toilers generally. 1938 Foreign Service Feb. 29/2 Workshops equipped with the best of working tools for the budding artisan or craftsman. 1962 S. Corrin tr. M. Eliade Forge & Crucible x. 100 It is possible..to divine the magic aura of the manufactured tool, the exceptional prestige of the artisan and workman. 2001 L. M. Sullivan Adventure Guide Barbados 147 Other skilled artisans create sculpture, pottery, fine jewelry, intricate baskets, and colorful paintings. 2. A person who practises or cultivates one of the fine arts; an artist. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > practitioner of an art artisan1576 1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi vi. f. 28 The best Artisan in Europ cannot depainte thee in thy right kinde better than my selfe can. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 535 But Parrhasius hath deceiued Zeuxis, a professed artisane. a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 187 What are the most judicious artisans, but the Mimiques of Nature? 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 208 When a natural faculty is..advanced into an Art..its Artisans are ever ready to apply their exertions to it. a1904 T. Stickney Poems (1905) 232 We artisans are jealous, and to give The secret of our art is to give all. I gave you all my music—play to me. 3. In extended use. ΚΠ 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiiii. 254 To liue also many yeares, and to enioy continuall health, is a propertie more conuenient for a good king than for any other artisan. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 346 That supreme Artizan, that painted to the life both Heauen and earth. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iv. 379 It appears that Nature, like all Artisans, becomes daily the more skilfull. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 65 Nature alone can form Such due Proportion... The Master's Hand Rare Artisan! with proper Shades improves His liv'ly Colouring. 1840–1 T. Moore Poet. Wks. III. 34 Those hack'd and tainted tools, so foully fit For the grand artisan of mischief, P—tt. 1923 W. A. Holl tr. E. Rignano Psychol. Reasoning 389 This affective activity, thus seen to be the great artisan of our intelligence. 1953 I. B. Cohen B. Franklin iii. 119 Acquiring virtue was an art and required tools as all arts do. Franklin therefore applied himself to the needs of an artisan of virtue. 1996 G. Fowler Learning to Dance Inside ix. 84 Most people in the West understand it [sc. God] to signify an elderly monarch and master artisan of the cosmos. Compounds General attributive, as artisan bread, artisan class, etc. ΚΠ 1839 J. Tod Trav. W. India xvii. 361 The rest is made up of the agricultural and artizan classes. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma Pref. p. vii Many of the most successful, energetic, and ingenious of the artisan class..are now found..rejecting the Bible altogether. 1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders vii. 188 He began..to flush at the thought of passing before the eyes of the neighbours to queue up with the work-shies and the halflins at the Buroo, that last humiliation of his artisan pride. 1940 T. H. Harrisson & C. H. Madge War begins at Home v. 103 The response was best from the upper and middle classes; whilst the upper-working or artisan class supplied its quota. 1952 V. A. Demant Relig. & Decline of Capitalism ii. 54 The Guild Socialists..sought to divert British labour from state collectivism to the recovery of authentic artisan status. 1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship v. iii. 261 The national socialist deputies elected in 1930 included 16 who were mainly from small-scale commerce and artisan production. 2000 R. Sterling World Food: Spain 162 The shop contains a fine selection of..artisan bread in knots, bows and rounds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1538 |
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