Bible Dictionaries
Artifice

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

(2):

(n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

(3):

(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

(4):

(n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Artifice'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/artifice.html. 1828.