Meaning

1 senses

  1. To construct by means of skill or specialised art

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The language of truth must be, with no doubt, simple and without artifice.

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  2. Religion is very personal. Practically everyone has really his own religion. Collectivity in religion is an artifice.

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Origin

From Middle French artifice, from Latin artificium.

From Middle French artifice, from Latin artificium.

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Forms

artifices, artificing, artificed, artificed
Base formartifice · to artifice
3rd person singularartifices
Present participleartificing
Past simpleartificed
Past participleartificed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyartifice
he, she, itartifices

Past simpleLesson

all personsartificed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave artificed
he, she, ithas artificed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill artifice

Word family

1 related words
RelatedartificialA2

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
articulateB2artifactC2artificialA2artificiallyB2artilleryartisan

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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