meaning of artifice

1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
2.
Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
3.
Artful or skillful contrivance.
4.
Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning. ]
5.
a deceptive maneuver especially to avoid capture


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