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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Artificial \Ar`ti*fi"cial\, a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium:
      cf. F. artificiel. See {Artifice}.]
      1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human
            skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial
            heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
  
                     Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier
                     than life.                                          --Shak.
  
      2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
            [bd]Artificial tears.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
            artificial grasses. --Gibbon.
  
      {Artificial arguments} (Rhet.), arguments invented by the
            speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the
            like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
            --Johnson.
  
      {Artificial classification} (Science), an arrangement based
            on superficial characters, and not expressing the true
            natural relations species; as, [bd]the artificial
            system[b8] in botany, which is the same as the Linn[91]an
            system.
  
      {Artificial horizon}. See under {Horizon}.
  
      {Artificial light}, any light other than that which proceeds
            from the heavenly bodies.
  
      {Artificial lines}, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived
            as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which,
            by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable
            exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
  
      {Artificial numbers}, logarithms.
  
      {Artificial person} (Law). See under {Person}.
  
      {Artificial sines}, {tangents}, etc., the same as logarithms
            of the natural sines, tangents, etc. --Hutton.
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