artfuladj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɑːtf(ᵿ)l/, U.S.

/ˈɑrtf(ə)l/

Forms: see art n.¹ and -ful suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: art n.¹, -ful suffix.

Etymology: < art n.¹ + -ful suffix.

a. Displaying or characterized by technical skill. Cf. art n.¹ 6. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill > according to the rules of art

artificial?a1425

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1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 75 These distempered bodies are reformed by artfull knowledge.

1614 S. Latham Falconry Pref. Verses To..force her to your voice and luring fall; Is strangely artfull.

1637 J. Milton Comus 17 Thyrsis? whose artfull strains have oft delayd The huddling brook.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. vi. §8 So artful a Machine as every Man is.

1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. lxiv It would not be deemed an artful performance, to fire one cartouch after another.

1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 905/2 His artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences.

1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 431/2 By melodious juxtaposition, by artful alliteration, by vowelled breathings and consonantal crashes of harmony.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead i. ii. 23 His face bore not a wrinkle nor a single straight line; it was an artful composition in globes, circles, arcs and ellipses.

b. That has practical, operative, or constructive skill; dexterous, clever.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill

handcrafty1463

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mechanic1713

1607 B. Jonson Volpone 490 Then will I haue thee, in more moderne formes, Attired like some sprightly Dame of France,..and, for change, To one of our most arte-full Curtezans.

1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. **1^v Too Artful a Writer to set down Events in exact Historical order.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 204 Her artful Hands the radiant Tresses ty'd.

a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1884) I. 154 Sing with what a careless Grace she flings Her artful hand.

1837 E. S. Wortley Impressions of Italy 74 In this his noblest Work—supreme, sublime.., This proudest labour of his artful hands.

1875 W. B. Scott Poems 163 The beacon-fire from Pharos shines to guide The beaked triremes with Sidon's wares.., and the Samian earth Transformed to gold by potters' artful hands.

1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) viii. 112 They went to their bed.., whereupon the springes of artful Hephaestus closed about them and tightened till they were not able to lift a limb nor move it.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Books section) 26 Thomson is an artful writer, and his prose here is up to standard.

a. Skilfully adapted for the accomplishment of a purpose; ingenious, clever. Hence: cunning, crafty, deceitful.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious > characterized by ingenuity

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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 167 What strength of arme, or art-full stratagem From Nile's fell Rover could deliuer them?

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa ii. i. 52 This Juice issues out sometimes of it self, sometimes it is drawn forth by incision, or some other way more artful.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 217 Artful Reasonings, and most moving Eloquence.

1763 J. Taperell New Misc. 19 Knaves catch honest Men with artful Hooks.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. ii. iv. §4 The marks, by an artful combination of which men have been able to discover and prove all that is proved in geometry.

1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings iv. 73 Goodwin followed at increased speed, but without any of the artful tactics that are so dear to the heart of the sleuth.

1948 J. K. Rollinson Wyoming Cattle Trails 139 The artful practice of burning or working over brands was resorted to, with honest mavericking as a side line.

2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Nov. a12/1 Finding some way, through painful compromises and artful fudges, of building a consensus.

b. Of a person: skilful in adapting means to ends, so as to secure the accomplishment of a purpose, adroit. Hence: skilful in taking unfair advantage; using stratagem; wily, cunning, crafty, deceitful. Cf. Artful Dodger n. at Compounds.Now the most common sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilful or adroit

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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective]

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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > specifically of actions, qualities, etc.

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1663 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes: 2nd Pt. iii. 24 In shewing you, the Artfull Rhodians know They hide distress and all their triumphs show.

1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs i. 23 Horace was more artful, and in a merry way touched upon his Friends' Faults without putting them out of humour.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 67 Made use of by artful and designing men.

1857 H. G. Bohn Handbk. Prov. 67 An artful fellow is the devil in a doublet.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xv. 134 ‘Now, this is a very artful dog’, said Mr. Boffin... ‘This is a longer-headed schemer than I thought him.’

1955 Times 26 Aug. 3/3 The artful old man who hides his major offences behind a frank admission of peccadilloes.

1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 158 Other wares included loaded dice..and shiners, little mirrors that enabled the artful cheater to read the hands of his opponents.

†3. Versed in the (liberal) arts; learned, wise. Also as n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [adjective] > versed in

artful1606

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. E2 There were a Ladie..of greate bloud, firme age, vndoubted honour, aboue her sexe, most modestly artfull, tho naturally modest.

1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 9 A piece worthy of an Artful man's Examination.

1715 Polit. View Affairs Great Brit. & Ireland 406 I think it will not be difficult to guess that so learned and artful a Partisan would not omit..an opportunity of imploying all the Stock of his Erudition.

1787 A. Highmore Succinct View Hist. Mortmain ii. 40 The above act produced a very strange dispute among the learned and artful.

4. Produced artificially, as opposed to naturally; artificial, imitative, unreal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > artificiality > [adjective]

artful1609

arted1637

artificialized1684

fictitious1686

plastic1963

plasticized1968

1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica viii. xvi. 173 Some of this Artfull coulour now I want, Which from the Muses I desire to borrow, In Melancholly Priam to dispaint The perfect Image.

1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 79 Hee found more agility and quicknesse in this amorous Creature, than ever Pygmalion could doe in his artfull (but as then un-enlivened feature).

1706 J. Addison Rosamond ii. i In yon cool grotto's artful night.

1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. viii. 55 The artful distresses of a romance.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited viii. 245 There was no beauty..either of artful ornament, or natural wildness.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 143 Smite the chords..That they may render back Artful thunder.

1936 ELH 3 274 A survey of topographical plays will show that the speciousness is artful and not natural, that the type is literary and not sociological.

1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 101 They have the form of artful things, and resemble not the harmonious arrangements of Nature, such as snow or crystal.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 9/1 Fantasy is scarcely an adequate term for the eerie transitions from present to past, wakefulness to dream..effected by Graham's artful tessellations of plain phrases.

Compounds

Artful Dodger n. (also with lower-case initials) [ < Artful Dodger, the nickname of John Dawkins, a young pickpocket in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838)] (a) allusive a (young) thief or pickpocket; a delinquent; cf. Fagin n.; (b) [rhyming slang] = lodger n. 1c (rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger

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Artful Dodger1839

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PG1925

1839 Times 22 Feb. 7/2 The ‘Fagins and Artful Dodgers’ of Field-lane.

1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 1 Artful dodger, lodger.

1931 Evening Standard 19 Aug. 10/1 He came home and he found the artful dodger elephant trunk in the bread and butter (He found the lodger drunk in the gutter).

1965 Listener 26 Aug. 292/2 The young unemployed.., the bastards.., the artful dodgers..thus have 500 Fagins to instruct them in everything from petty thievery to drug addiction.

2006 New Yorker 27 Mar. 91/3 Steve is the real thing—an Artful Dodger, bent on adult crime, who takes his first gulp of mortal peril and cries like a child.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	artful
释义	artfuladj.n. Brit. /ˈɑːtf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈɑrtf(ə)l/ Forms: see art n.¹ and -ful suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: art n.¹, -ful suffix. Etymology: < art n.¹ + -ful suffix. 1. a. Displaying or characterized by technical skill. Cf. art n.¹ 6. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill > according to the rules of art artificial?a1425 artful1590 art-like1611 1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 75 These distempered bodies are reformed by artfull knowledge. 1614 S. Latham Falconry Pref. Verses To..force her to your voice and luring fall; Is strangely artfull. 1637 J. Milton Comus 17 Thyrsis? whose artfull strains have oft delayd The huddling brook. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. vi. §8 So artful a Machine as every Man is. 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. lxiv It would not be deemed an artful performance, to fire one cartouch after another. 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 905/2 His artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences. 1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 431/2 By melodious juxtaposition, by artful alliteration, by vowelled breathings and consonantal crashes of harmony. 1943 A. Rand Fountainhead i. ii. 23 His face bore not a wrinkle nor a single straight line; it was an artful composition in globes, circles, arcs and ellipses. b. That has practical, operative, or constructive skill; dexterous, clever. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill handcrafty1463 artificial1531 artful1607 mechanic1713 1607 B. Jonson Volpone 490 Then will I haue thee, in more moderne formes, Attired like some sprightly Dame of France,..and, for change, To one of our most arte-full Curtezans. 1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. *1^v Too Artful a Writer to set down Events in exact Historical order. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad* IV. xiv. 204 Her artful Hands the radiant Tresses ty'd. a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1884) I. 154 Sing with what a careless Grace she flings Her artful hand. 1837 E. S. Wortley Impressions of Italy 74 In this his noblest Work—supreme, sublime.., This proudest labour of his artful hands. 1875 W. B. Scott Poems 163 The beacon-fire from Pharos shines to guide The beaked triremes with Sidon's wares.., and the Samian earth Transformed to gold by potters' artful hands. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) viii. 112 They went to their bed.., whereupon the springes of artful Hephaestus closed about them and tightened till they were not able to lift a limb nor move it. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Books section) 26 Thomson is an artful writer, and his prose here is up to standard. 2. a. Skilfully adapted for the accomplishment of a purpose; ingenious, clever. Hence: cunning, crafty, deceitful. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious > characterized by ingenuity craftlyOE quaintc1230 sly1297 subtilea1393 subtlea1400 cunning1423 prettyc1450 ingenious1548 politicc1550 well-contrived1563 conceited1579 well-invented1588 concepted1594 nimble1602 artful1605 artly?1614 artistical1646 callid1656 well-couched1671 tippy1863 genius1924 creative1967 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 167 What strength of arme, or art-full stratagem From Nile's fell Rover could deliuer them? 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa ii. i. 52 This Juice issues out sometimes of it self, sometimes it is drawn forth by incision, or some other way more artful. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 217 Artful Reasonings, and most moving Eloquence. 1763 J. Taperell New Misc. 19 Knaves catch honest Men with artful Hooks. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. ii. iv. §4 The marks, by an artful combination of which men have been able to discover and prove all that is proved in geometry. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings iv. 73 Goodwin followed at increased speed, but without any of the artful tactics that are so dear to the heart of the sleuth. 1948 J. K. Rollinson Wyoming Cattle Trails 139 The artful practice of burning or working over brands was resorted to, with honest mavericking as a side line. 2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Nov. a12/1 Finding some way, through painful compromises and artful fudges, of building a consensus. b. Of a person: skilful in adapting means to ends, so as to secure the accomplishment of a purpose, adroit. Hence: skilful in taking unfair advantage; using stratagem; wily, cunning, crafty, deceitful. Cf. Artful Dodger n. at Compounds.Now the most common sense. 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Davenant Siege of Rhodes: 2nd Pt. iii. 24 In shewing you, the Artfull Rhodians know They hide distress and all their triumphs show. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs i. 23 Horace was more artful, and in a merry way touched upon his Friends' Faults without putting them out of humour. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 67 Made use of by artful and designing men. 1857 H. G. Bohn Handbk. Prov. 67 An artful fellow is the devil in a doublet. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xv. 134 ‘Now, this is a very artful dog’, said Mr. Boffin... ‘This is a longer-headed schemer than I thought him.’ 1955 Times 26 Aug. 3/3 The artful old man who hides his major offences behind a frank admission of peccadilloes. 1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 158 Other wares included loaded dice..and shiners, little mirrors that enabled the artful cheater to read the hands of his opponents. †3. Versed in the (liberal) arts; learned, wise. Also as n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [adjective] > versed in artful1606 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. E2 There were a Ladie..of greate bloud, firme age, vndoubted honour, aboue her sexe, most modestly artfull, tho naturally modest. 1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 9 A piece worthy of an Artful man's Examination. 1715 Polit. View Affairs Great Brit. & Ireland 406 I think it will not be difficult to guess that so learned and artful a Partisan would not omit..an opportunity of imploying all the Stock of his Erudition. 1787 A. Highmore Succinct View Hist. Mortmain ii. 40 The above act produced a very strange dispute among the learned and artful. 4. Produced artificially, as opposed to naturally; artificial, imitative, unreal. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > artificiality > [adjective] artful1609 arted1637 artificialized1684 fictitious1686 plastic1963 plasticized1968 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica viii. xvi. 173 Some of this Artfull coulour now I want, Which from the Muses I desire to borrow, In Melancholly Priam to dispaint The perfect Image. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 79 Hee found more agility and quicknesse in this amorous Creature, than ever Pygmalion could doe in his artfull (but as then un-enlivened feature). 1706 J. Addison Rosamond ii. i In yon cool grotto's artful night. 1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. viii. 55 The artful distresses of a romance. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited viii. 245 There was no beauty..either of artful ornament, or natural wildness. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 143 Smite the chords..That they may render back Artful thunder. 1936 ELH 3 274 A survey of topographical plays will show that the speciousness is artful and not natural, that the type is literary and not sociological. 1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 101 They have the form of artful things, and resemble not the harmonious arrangements of Nature, such as snow or crystal. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 9/1 Fantasy is scarcely an adequate term for the eerie transitions from present to past, wakefulness to dream..effected by Graham's artful tessellations of plain phrases. Compounds Artful Dodger n. (also with lower-case initials) [ < Artful Dodger, the nickname of John Dawkins, a young pickpocket in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838)] (a) allusive a (young) thief or pickpocket; a delinquent; cf. Fagin n.; (b) [rhyming slang] = lodger n. 1c (rare). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger boarder1530 inmake1536 inmate1589 quarterer1595 commoner1598 tabler1598 by-settel1612 lodgera1616 inquilinea1641 pensioner1673 pensionnairea1794 Artful Dodger1839 paying guest1853 roomer1859 star boarder1875 pension-boarder1898 latchkey1905 PG1925 1839 Times 22 Feb. 7/2 The ‘Fagins and Artful Dodgers’ of Field-lane. 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 1 Artful dodger, lodger. 1931 Evening Standard 19 Aug. 10/1 He came home and he found the artful dodger elephant trunk in the bread and butter (He found the lodger drunk in the gutter). 1965 Listener 26 Aug. 292/2 The young unemployed.., the bastards.., the artful dodgers..thus have 500 Fagins to instruct them in everything from petty thievery to drug addiction. 2006 New Yorker 27 Mar. 91/3 Steve is the real thing—an Artful Dodger, bent on adult crime, who takes his first gulp of mortal peril and cries like a child. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1590
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