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ˈarts-man arch.
[f. art's, genitive of art n. + man; cf. the earlier craftsman, later sportsman.]
†1. A craftsman, workman, artificer. Obs.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. Pref., The artes man contemned, the woorke vnrewarded. 1600Chapman Iliad xvi. 446 A pine, New fell'd by arts-men on the hills. 1726Nat. Hist. Irel. 76 And open the mouth thereof [of the furnace], or the timpas as the artsmen call it.
†2. One skilled in the liberal arts, a scholar. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xiii. §2 The pith of all sciences, which maketh the artsman differ from the inexpert, is in the middle propositions.
†3. One who practises the fine arts; an artist. Obs.
1633Ford Love's Sacr. ii. ii, Observe with what singularity the artsman hath strove to set forth each limb in exquisitest proportion.
4. One who cultivates a practical science.
1858J. Brown Locke & Syd. 62 [Sydenham] was what Plato would have called an artsman as distinguished from a doctor of abstract science. |