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artifice

noun
/ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪfɪs/

Etymology

From Middle French artifice, from Latin artificium.

  1. borrowed from artifice

Definitions

  1. A crafty but underhanded deception.

    • The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion.

  2. A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.

    • The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.

  3. A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A tactical move to gain advantage.

    2. Something made with technical skill

      Something made with technical skill; a contrivance.

    3. To construct by means of skill or specialised art

      • The Creator has so cunningly endowed our bodies that there is no labor to be done, no skill in artificing or fashioning the metals, that is beyond our reach.
      • Some of the greatest artists of their day either furnished designs or with their own hands artificed ornaments for domestic use,
      • Splints and slings, already described, are easily artificed out of small saplings or from stiff bark.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at artifice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at artifice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at artifice

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA