[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

artificial \ar`tifi"cial\, a. l. artificialis, fr. artificium:
   cf. f. artificiel. see artifice.
   1. made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human
      skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial
      heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
      1913 webster

            artificial strife
            lives in these touches, livelier than life. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
      "artificial tears." --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. artful; cunning; crafty. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
      artificial grasses. --gibbon.
      1913 webster

   artificial arguments rhet., arguments invented by the
      speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the
      like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
      --johnson.

   artificial classification science, an arrangement based
      on superficial characters, and not expressing the true
      natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in
      botany, which is the same as the linnaean system.

   artificial horizon. see under horizon.

   artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds
      from the heavenly bodies.

   artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived
      as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which,
      by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable
      exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.

   artificial numbers, logarithms.

   artificial person law. see under person.

   artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms
      of the natural sines, tangents, etc. --hutton.
      1913 webster
see also:
artifice artificial arguments artificial classification artificial horizon horizon artificial light 
artificial lines artificial numbers artificial person person artificial sines 
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