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Meaning of ARTIFICIALLY

Pronunciation:  `ârtu'fishullee

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 Definition: [adv]  not according to nature; not by natural means; "artificially induced conditions"
 
 Synonyms: by artificial means, unnaturally
 
 Antonyms: naturally
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ar`ti*fi"cial*ly\, adv.
1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance,
   not by nature.

2. Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.]

         The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought.
                                               --Tillotson.

3. Craftily; artfully. [Obs.]

         Sharp dissembled so artificially.     --Bp. Burnet.

 

 

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