artsman
English
Etymology
Noun
artsman (plural artsmen)
- (obsolete) A man skilled in an art or in arts.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 48, verso:
- [T]he pythe of all Sciences, which maketh the Arts-man differ from the inexpert, is in the middle propoſitions, which in euerie particular knowledge are taken from Tradition & Experience.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “artsman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)