artistry (artistri)

[ The scene over bowered by these heavenly frescoes, moldering there in their airy artistry ! H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 203. Artium Bac cal aureus (är'ti-um bak-a-la'rēus). [ML., NL.] Bachelor of Arts. See bachelor . Artium Magister (är'ti-um ma-jis'ter). [ML., NL.) Master of Arts. See master . artizet (är'tīz), v. [ art2 + -ize .] I. trans. To form by art. Florio. artle (ürt'les), a. n . [Also artizan ; artisan , earlier artisien , artist, = Sp. Sp. artesano = Pg. artesão = It. arti- giano (ML. reflex artesanus ), art it i an us , art it us , skilled, pp. of artire , instruct in arts, ar ( t- )s, art skill: see art2 .] 1. One II. in trans. To live by or exercise an art. [ art2 + -le .] 1. UnThe high-shoed plowman, should he quit the land, Artle of stars, and of the moving sand. Dryden, tr. of Persius, Satires, v. 149. In early times very little that resembles modern joinery was known; every part was rude, and joined in the most artle manner. Encyc , Brit ., IV. 485. ... The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary artle 2. Without knowledge of art; ignorant of the fine arts. [Rare.] And as for Mr. Ruskin's world of art being a place where he may take life easily, woe to the luckle mortal who enters it with any such disposition. The poor wanderer soon begins to look back with infinite longing to the lost paradise of the artle . H. James, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 68. 3. Showing no artistic skill; inartistic; rude. [Rare.] Had it been a practice of the Saxons to set up these a emblages of artle and ma y pillars, more specimens would remained. T. Warton, Hist. of Kidding ton. 4. Free from guile, craft, or stratagem; simple; sincere; unaffected; undesigning; unsophisti cated: as, an artle mind. The little artle Rosey warbled on her pretty ditties. Thackeray , The New comes, II. 58. =Syn. 4. Guilele , open, candid, frank, natural, unaffected, ingenuous, simple-minded, naïve, honest. artle ly (ärt'les-li), adv . In an artle manner. (a) Without art or skill. [Rare.] ( b ) With out guile; naturally; sincerely; unaffectedly. Some buds she arranged with a vast deal of care, To look as if artle ly twined in her hair. Lowell, Fable for Critics. artle ne (ärt'les-nes), n. The quality of being artle ; simplicity; sincerity; unaffectedne .