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artisan|ɑːtɪˈzæn|
Also 7 artisane, -zen, 8 -sant, 6– artizan.
[a. F. artisan, according to Diez ad. It. artigiano:—late L. *artītiānus, f. artītus, pa. pple. of artī-re to instruct in arts. Cf. partisan.]
A.
†1. One who practises or cultivates an art; an artist. Obs.
c1590Marlowe Faustus i. 53 O what a world of profit and delight..Is promis'd to the studious artizan. 1601Holland Pliny II. 535 But Parrhasius hath deceiued Zeuxis, a professed artisane. 1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Ex. vii. 11 Devillish Arts and Artizens, such as God's law condemneth. 1795Mason Ch. Music iii. 208 When a natural faculty is..advanced into an Art..its Artisans are ever ready to apply their exertions to it.
2. One who is employed in any of the industrial arts; a mechanic, handicraftsman, artificer.
1538Starkey England 159 Few artysanys of gud occupatyon. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Doigt, The Germans..are better Artisans then Artists, better at handy-crafts then at head⁓craft. 1713Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 225 The Artisants here have wonderful Skill. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 145 ⁋1 The meanest artisan..contributes more to the accommodation of life, than the profound scholar. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 420 We pass from the weavers of cloth to a different class of artisans.
3. transf. or fig.
1599Harsnet Agst. Darell 21 Jesuites and Popish Artizans [printed Anti-]. 1623Mabbe Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. ii. 346 That Supreme Artizan that painted to the Life both heaven and Earth.
B. attrib. quasi-adj. (It is adj. in Fr.)
1859Mill Liberty iv. (1865) 52/1 Opinions similar in principle..prevail widely among the artizan class. |