artificious

comparative more artificious · superlative most artificious

1. obsoleteUsing, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by artfulness or skill

   Upon their artificious and dilatory answers he immediately draws his forces together, and with an army, under the command of Spinola, marches towards Juliers.

   1687, Sir William Temple, Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

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   As for the hands, when she parted them into many fingers, and those of unequal length and bigness, she hath made them of all other organical parts the most proper artificious and workmanlike instruments

   1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC

   Synonyms: dexterous, skillful, artful, artificial, contrived, devised