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unartiˈficial, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Not displaying special art or skill; unskilful, inartistic, clumsy. Now rare or Obs.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. Pref., If I shold confesse..that my verse is vnartificiall, the stile rude, the phrase barbarous. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 80 It is an vnartificiall kinde of descanting in the middle of a lesson, to let the plainsong sing alone. 1602Campion Art Eng. Poesie Ded., The vulgar and vnarteficiall custome of riming. 1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus iii. 154 The Common-Places and suggestions of your Advocates for Pleasure are, at best, but very Shallow and Unartificial. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 275 They have levelled and crushed together all the orders which they found, even under the coarse unartificial arrangement of the monarchy. 1825Bentham Ration. Reward 204 Art and science, on the one hand, and unartificial practice and unscientific knowledge, on the other.
2. Not artificial; simple, natural.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. xii. 628 It representeth in an vn-artificiall boldnesse, and infantine securitie, the pure impression and first ignorance of nature. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxvii. (1674) 100 Men who live in sincerity.., with an undisguised and unartificial goodness. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 345 Example arising from a natural unartificial developement of incidents. 1982N. & Q. Aug. 361/2 He demonstrates that Wordsworth considered a good epitaph to be an expression in unartificial language of the deep feelings of the bereaved for the dead. |