adv. [f. prec.] † Inartistically, unskilfully.

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1591.  Harington, Orl. Fur., Pref. And yet for Ariostos tales that many thinke vnartificially brought in, Homer him selfe hath the like.

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1598.  Hakluyt, Voy., I. 484. The barrel is rudely and vnartificially made.

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1622.  Peacham, Compl. Gent., x. (1634), 89. Hee goeth unartificially to worke even in the very beginning.

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1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., III. Wks. 1851, V. 102. The material being only Turf, and by the rude multitude unartificially built up…, avail’d them little.

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1706.  Stevens, Span. Dict., I. Inhabilmente, unhandily, unartificially, unskilfully, ignorantly.

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