Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

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Practice :: Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
Stratagemical :: Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination..
Malefice :: Malefice (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.
Strategics :: Strategical (a.) Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.
Trick :: Trick (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade..
Insnare :: Insnare (v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle..
Juggle :: Juggle (v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.
Covin :: Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
Art :: Art (n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.
Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..
Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like..
Workman :: Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer..
Fetch :: Fetch (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice..
Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..
Opificer :: Opificer (n.) An artificer; a workman.
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Politician :: Politician (a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.
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