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inartificial, a.|ɪnɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl|
[ad. L. inartificiālis (Quintilian), f. in- (in-3) + artificiālis artificial (used to render Gr. ἄτεχνος). Cf. F. inartificiel (16th c.).]
Not artificial.
1. Not resulting from art or artifice; not produced by constructive skill; natural. Now rare.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. vii. (1701) 329/1 There are..two kinds of Fire, one artificial, requisite to the use of life, which converteth nutriment into it self; the other inartificial (so Cicero renders ἀτεχνικὸν) by which all things grow, and are preserved. 1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. Introd. 8 It is nothing but a shining cloud..cast into a contingent and inartificial shape. 1672Grew Philos. Hist. Plants §8 When needful to add the preparations of Art to that of Nature; how to Enlarge those of Art, and Rectifie those which are indeed Inartificial.
2. Not in accordance with the principles of art; constructed without art or skill, rude, clumsy; inartistic.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Inartificiall, without art or skill. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv. (R.), For these and many other concurrent causes, the proceeding is inartificial and casual, and fit to lead the ignorant, but not the learned. 1671in E. D. Neill Virg. Carol. (1886) 332 We are at continual charge to repair unskilfull and inartificial buildings. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. x. 412 The Chinese..adhere to the rude and inartificial method of representing words by arbitrary marks. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. viii. 257 Their warlike instruments are rude, noisy and inartificial. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. §326 Nothing could be..more inartificial and unnatural than its classification. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 153 In the style of Papias, so inartificial and inexact, it cannot be regarded as certain that this is his meaning.
†3. Of an argument: Not according to the art of Logic; not deduced by logical methods from accepted premisses, but derived from authority or testimony. Obs.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. ii. 10 Ramus divideth an argument into artificiall and inartificiall. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xxvi. (1647) 157 The Legate used an inartificiall argument drawn from the authority of his place. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 339 There being two kinds of arguments or reasons..whereby positions or tenets are wont to be proved, artificial and inartificial: by artificial, the meaning is, those that are levied and wrought out by the light and strength of the understanding from general principles; by inartificial, the testimony or consent of judgment amongst men about a matter. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 38 The Scripture-Faith, is not a meer Believing of Historicall Things, and upon Inartificiall Arguments, or Testimonies onely. 1725Watts Logic iii. ii. §8 An artificial Argument is taken from the Nature and Circumstances of the Things;..An inartificial Argument is the Testimony of another.
4. Not assumed or put on; artless, unaffected, natural. (Of personal qualities, actions, etc.; hence of persons.)
1664–5Evelyn Let. to Ld. Cornebery Feb., This excesse, which..proceeds from the honest and inartificial gratitude of [etc.]. 1779F. Burney Diary Jan., A rather pretty, pale girl; very young and inartificial. 1780Burke Econ. Reform Wks. III. 249 Any inartificial expression of the people's wishes. 1871S. C. Hall Bk. Memories 383 His [Hogg's] vanity was so inartificial as to be absolutely amusing.
5. Without complexity or artifice; not elaborately designed or worked out; plain, simple, straightforward.
1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers xi. (1869) 46 The ‘long room’ was but an extremely plain and inartificial temple. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. i. iv. §23. I. 271 What is told in narration, according to the ancient inartificial form of tragedy, is finely told. 1893H. Walker 3 Cent. Scot. Lit. I. 173 The thought is without complexity, inartificial and, to a large extent, common property.
Hence inartificiˈality, inartificial character.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. II. vi. 81 The defects, in want of character and probability..and inartificiality of ordonnance. |