artloss

[Eng. art; -le .] Without art. Specially- L. Of persons or minds: 1. Not understanding art; destitute of all acquaintance with art. (Rarely followed by of .) "The high-shoed plowman, should he quit the land, Artle of stars, and of the moving sand."-Dryden. 2. Guilele , simple, undesigning, too innocent to try to deceive, and not likely to succeed even if the attempt were made. "Suspicion lurks not in her artle breast; The worst suggested, she believes the best." Cowper: Charity. II. Of things: 1. Destitute of art; not evincing the po e ion of art in its or their constructor. ... these a emblages of artle and ma y pillars." -Warton: Hist . of Kidding ton . 2. Conceived in simplicity and sincerity; not designed to produce an effect, but producing it all the more on account of this. "Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artle , unencumber'd plan!" Cowper: Truth. of cla ical learning: "Some will make me the pattern of ignorance for making this Scaliger the pattern of the general artist ." -Fuller: Holy State , bk. ii., ch. 8. (See Trench: Select Glo ary, pp. 8, 9. Or (b) for a cultivator of science. In the subjoined example it probably means "astronomer," or if it be "constructor of the telescope," the example will illustrate signification 2 instead of 1. [ART (B.), ARTSMAN.] the moon, whose orb Through optic gla the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole." Milton: P. L. , bk. i. +2. One who practises an art of whatever kind. (The variety of occupations to which the term may be applied may be seen in the example from Pope under No. II.) "Then from his anvil the lame artist rose, Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. xviii. 482. 3. One who practises any of the fine arts, as music, painting, sculpture, engraving, or architecture. (This is now the ordinary signification of the word.) IMG:content-0777.png:[blocks in formation] artle manner. Specially 1. Without skill. 2. Without craft; simply, guilele ly, undesignedly, sincerely. "Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing, when openly and artle ly represented."-Pope.