artizan

plural artizans

1. archaicArchaic spelling of artisan.

   We have been artists if not artizans."

   1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck

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   Human education joined to that of nature, may make a good citizen, a skilful artizan, or a well-bred man; but a higher power is wanting in order to produce a Bacon or a Newton.

   1852, Samuel Wilderspin, The Infant System

   "Disclosure" is what the artizan learns from the prior art or what he learns from an application asserted to disclose a novel invention.

   1937, Emerson Stringham, Outline of Patent Law and Guide to Digests, Pacot Publications, page 94

   If an employer temporarily suspends the employment of a registered artizan, and in consequence of such suspension, the said artizan's total remuneration for any working week is less than £6 the fund shall as soon as practicable after application has been made, pay him an amount equal to the difference between the said remuneration and £6.

   1943, Trade Union Bulletin, Volumes 3-4, Western Province and District Council of Trade Unions, page 7

   The French fishing industry falls into two, not very clearly distinguished sections; the industrial fisheries, carried on in comparatively large vessels owned by shore-based companies, and the "artizan" or family fisheries carried on in (as a rule) smaller boats owned by their skippers, by family groups or, in recent years, […]

   1973, Margaret Digby, The Organisation of Fishermen's Co-operatives, Plunkett Foundation for Co-operation Studies, page 78