Obs. [f. ART sb.]
1. To instruct in arts, or in any particular art.
1660. Stanley, Hist. Philos., 118/2. Agesilaus sent his Sons to be educated at Sparta, to learn and art them … how to obey and command.
2. To make artificial, to artificialize. rare.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, I. lxiii. Wks. 1677, 97. The nature that is arted with the subtilties of time and practice.
3. To obtain or gain by art. rare.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxvii. (1612), 319. Skill … (whereby they arted men’s good will).
4. phr. To art it: to use art or artifice.
1637. H. Sydenham, Serm., 152. Hee that can art it hansomely in ways of dissimulation.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., xxvi. § 2 (1669), 324/2. When they have Arted it most in packing their sins, to hide them from the Worlds eye.
