inartificialadj.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 105 There are..two kinds of fire, one artificiall, requisite to the use of life, which converteth nutriment into it self; the other inartificiall..by which all things grow, and are preserved.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant Introd. 8 It is nothing but a shining cloud..cast into a contingent and inartificial shape.

1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 5 in Anat. Plants 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.

1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Inartificiall, without art or skill.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. 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.

1671 in E. D. Neill Virg. Carol. (1886) 332 We are at continual charge to repair unskilfull and inartificial buildings.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 412 The Chinese..adhere to the rude and inartificial method of representing words by arbitrary marks.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. viii. 257 Their warlike instruments are rude, noisy and inartificial.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. §326 Nothing could be..more inartificial and unnatural than its classification.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 153 In the style of Papias, so inartificial and inexact, it cannot be regarded as certain that this is his meaning.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii. f. 10 Ramus divideth an argument into artificiall and inartificiall.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxvi. 157 The Legate used an inartificiall argument drawn from the authority of his place.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiii. 377 There being two kinds of Arguments or Reasons..whereby Positions or Tenents 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.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. *** The Scripture-Faith, is not a meer Believing of Historicall Things, and upon Inartificiall Arguments, or Testimonies onely.

1725 I. Watts Logick iii. ii. §8 An artificial Argument is taken from the Nature and Circumstances of the Things;..An inartificial Argument is the Testimony of another.

1665 J. Evelyn Let. 9 Feb. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 153 This excess, which..proceeds from..honest, and inartificial gratitude.

1779 F. Burney Diary Jan. (1842) I. 170 A rather pretty, pale girl; very young and inartificial.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 15 Any inartificial expression of the people's wishes.

1871 S. C. Hall Bk. Memories Great Men & Women 383 His [Hogg's] vanity was so inartificial as to be absolutely amusing.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xi. 155 The ‘long room’ was but an extremely plain and inartificial temple.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 373 What is told in narration, according to the ancient inartificial form of tragedy, is finely told.

1893 H. Walker 3 Cent. Sc. Lit. I. 173 The thought is without complexity, inartificial and, to a large extent, common property.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. vi. 81 The defects, in want of character and probability..and inartificiality of ordonnance.