All 5 Uses of
artifice
in
Don Quixote
- Nor were their ornaments like those in use to-day, set off by Tyrian purple, and silk tortured in endless fashions, but the wreathed leaves of the green dock and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dames with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle curiosity has taught them.†
Chpt 1.11-12artifices = deceptive maneuvers (tricks to help pretend)
- But to shorten the long recital of my woes, I will pass over in silence all the artifices employed by Don Fernando for declaring his passion for me.†
Chpt 1.27-28 *
- He thought more of Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland in spite of enchantments, availing himself of the artifice of Hercules when he strangled Antaeus the son of Terra in his arms.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- Naturalists tell us that the ermine is a little animal which has a fur of purest white, and that when the hunters wish to take it, they make use of this artifice.†
Chpt 1.33-34
- so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me;†
Chpt 1.33-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(artifice) deceptive behavior or something made to deceive
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In older writing, artifice simply meant any skillfully created object or invention—not just trickery like today.