artifice
/ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪfɪs/ verb C2- To construct by means of skill or specialised art
He/she/it artifices · Past artificed · Past participle artificed · -ing form artificing
Verb forms
- Base form
- artifice
- He/she/it
- artifices
- Past
- artificed
- Past participle
- artificed
- -ing form
- artificing
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A LION, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice.
Dantès dug away the earth carefully, and detected, or fancied he detected, the ingenious artifice.
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