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Definition of Artifice
1. Noun. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture).
Definition of Artifice
1. n. A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
Definition of Artifice
1. Noun. A crafty but underhanded deception. ¹
2. Noun. A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse. ¹
3. Noun. A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture. ¹
4. Noun. A tactical move to gain advantage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Artifice
1. a clever stratagem [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Artifice
Literary usage of Artifice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Pageantry: An Historical Outline by Robert Withington (1918)
"The elaborate machines on this occasion recalls the pageant, although the latter
was not usually made the basis of " feux d'artifice. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"... law regards an entry as a constructive breaking, when there is no breaking at
all in the popular sense of the word.4' (2~) Entry by artifice or Fraud. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"A free and voluntary confession is not inadmissible because it was subsequently
retracted,30 or hecause it was originally obtained by an artifice practiced ..."
4. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"The corpuscular hypothesis, regarding it henceforth as a mere logical artifice,
is, like the method of experiment, specially appropriate only to the first ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"... produced for him a pastoral operetta, ' The Shepherd's artifice,' '\ May ...
artifice ..."
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