ppl. a. [f. ART v.2 and sb. + -ED.]
1. Versed in any art, or in artifice; skilled, trained.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, I. xii. Wks. 1677, 18. Throughly arted in navigation. Ibid., I. lxxxviii. To sing or play like an arted musician.
1646. Gaule, Cases Consc., 33. Either the Arted or the Pacted Witch.
2. Made artificial, artificialized.
1638. Albino & Bellama (N.). In her which arted lookes does ware, Men looke for natures steps, and cannot trace her.
3. Made by art or artifice, artificial.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 5. Was she instructed by an arted speculation, or by a divine revelation only?
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. (1858), 49. And sweeter aires streame from a grone, Than any arted string.
