Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man skilled in an art or in the arts; especially, a learned man; a scholar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A man skilled in an art or in arts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A man skilled in an
art or in arts.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now even an old artsman like your humble e-scribbler can tell that $400,000 is not 33% of $22 million.
Archive 2006-11-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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And Plato in his “Theaetetus” noteth well, “That particulars are infinite, and the higher generalities give no sufficient direction; and that the pith of all sciences, which maketh the artsman differ from the inexpert, is in the middle propositions, which in every particular knowledge are taken from tradition and experience.”
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These are the intellectual qualities which make up the physician, without any one of which he would be _mancus_, and would not deserve the name of a complete artsman, any more than proteine would be itself if any one of its four elements were amissing.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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And Plato in his "Theaetetus" noteth well, "That particulars are infinite, and the higher generalities give no sufficient direction; and that the pith of all sciences, which maketh the artsman differ from the inexpert, is in the middle propositions, which in every particular knowledge are taken from tradition and experience."
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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It’s an artshow by a smart design artsman by the name of Shawn Wolfe, all the way up down in San Diego.
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