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noun

Artisan n.

One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. (Obs.)

One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. "This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can... compensate his additional toil and fatigue."

Synonyms: Artificer; artist. Artisan, Artist, Artificer. An artist is one who is skilled in some one of the fine arts; an artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A portrait painter is an artist; a sign painter is an artisan, although he may have the taste and skill of an artist. The occupation of the former requires a fine taste and delicate manipulation; that of the latter demands only an ordinary degree of contrivance and imitative power. An artificer is one who requires power of contrivance and adaptation in the exercise of his profession. The word suggest neither the idea of mechanical conformity to rule which attaches to the term artisan, nor the ideas of refinement and of peculiar skill which belong to the term artist.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... could have surpassed, if I had devoted to the Muses the time and the powers which I have squandered on a vilain metier, that demands the genius of a Talleyrand, and rewards with the crust of an artisan. ...

— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon

... have been as selfish, as rapacious, as their Hohenzollern overlords. Nothing could be more sordid than their attitude in the recent campaign for financial reform. They have shifted the burden of taxation upon the weaker shoulders of the peasant and artisan. They have compelled von Buelow to reverse the Liberal Free Trade policy of Caprivi, and to impose heavy corn duties, merely to increase ...

— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

... "Hence in ancient times, and among some nations, the working classes had no share in the government—a privilege which they only acquired under the extreme democracy.... Doubtless in ancient times and among some nations the artisan class were slaves or foreigners, and therefore the majority of them are so now. The best form of State will not admit ...

— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet

... Whiteface the Carpenter Bee, that he hated to work that honest artisan stared at ...

— The Tale of Buster Bumblebee • Arthur Scott Bailey

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