ARTIFICIAL

An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary · 1891 · p. 2

adj. A®rt-i?-fi2sh’a*l. Lat., artificial is (from arte, by art, and facere, to make). Fr., art if i ciel. Ger., kiinstlich. It.. artificiale. Sp., artificial. Made by man (opposed to natural); in natural history, an a, system is a system of cla ification and nomenclature founded upon distinctions selected arbitrarily. [B.]