Definition of "artifices" []

• Plural form of artifice. (noun)

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• "Perhaps one of the greatest artifices is to take a quick hold of your audience by a striking beginning which will enlist their attention from the start."
• "[7] Perhaps some collector of eighteenth century pamphlets may be able to reveal these comments of the 'Happy Gobler of Portugal-street' upon the 'artifices' of Henry Fielding."
• "Antichrist; fulfilling Jesus words, "I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive" (compare Ge 15: 16; Mt 23: 32; 1Th 2: 16). of fierce countenance -- (De 28: 50); one who will spare neither old nor young. understanding dark sentences -- rather, "artifices" [Gesenius]."