arch. [f. art’s, genitive of ART sb. + MAN; cf. the earlier craftsman, later sportsman.]
† 1. A craftsman, workman, artificer. Obs.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., Pref. The artes man contemned, the woorke vnrewarded.
1600. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 446. A pine, New fell’d by arts-men on the hills.
1726. Nat. Hist. Irel., 76. And open the mouth thereof [of the furnace], or the timpas as the artsmen call it.
† 2. One skilled in the liberal arts, a scholar. Obs.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., III. xiii. § 2. The pith of all sciences, which maketh the artsman differ from the inexpert, is in the middle propositions.
† 3. One who practises the fine arts; an artist. Obs.
1633. Ford, Love’s Sacr., II. ii. Observe with what singularity the artsman hath strove to set forth each limb in exquisitest proportion.
4. One who cultivates a practical science.
1858. J. Brown, Locke & Syd., 62. [Sydenham] was what Plato would have called an artsman as distinguished from a doctor of abstract science.
