Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Artificially"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Artificially \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
artificially
adv : not according to nature; not by natural means; "artificially
induced conditions" [syn: {unnaturally}, {by artificial
means}] [ant: {naturally}]
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