artist

[Fr. artiste; Sp., Port., & Ital. artist a; from Lat. ars = art.] I. Of a person's profe ion, occupation , craft , or study : *1. One who has had a liberal education, or at least is a reader, and has in consequence acquired knowledge, as contradistinguished from one who is unread. "The wise and fool, the artist and unread."Shakesp.: Troilus & Cre ida, 1. 3. "Tis more by art than force of numerous strokes The dexterous woodman shakes the stubborn oaks: By art the pilot, through the boiling deep And howling tempest, steers the fearle ship; And 'tis the artis : wins the glorious course, Not those who trust in chariots and in horse. In vain, unskilful, to the goal they strive, And short or wide th' ungovern'd courser drive; While with sure skill, though with inferior steeds, The knowing racer to his end proceeds. Pope : Homer's Iliad , bk. ххііі., 383-94. * artist-god, s. [Here the word artist is used in the sense I., 2.] Vulcan. "To her the artist - god : Thy griefs resign, Secure, what Vulcan can, is ever thine." Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. xviii., 531-2. artist-like, a . Like an artist. " Artist -like, Ever retiring thou dost gaze On the prime labour of thine early days." Tennyson: Ode to Memory, 5. ar-tiste, s . [Fr.] One who practises an art and profe es to do so in the highest style. (Often used of play-actors and musicians, but not unfrequently also of milliners and cooks, who, deriving their inspiration from Paris, wish to be designated by a word current in that capital rather than by one of indigenous growth.)