What is artful or skillful contrivance. His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik called?
artifice — Artful or skillful contrivance. His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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