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Webster 1913 Edition
Artist
1.
One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
[Obs.]
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2.
One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
☞ The term is particularly applied to painters, sculptors, musicians, engravers, and architects.
Elmes.
3.
One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Artist
'ARTIST
,Noun.
1.
One skilled in an art or trade; one who is master or professor of a manual art; a good workman in any trade.2.
A skilful man; not a novice.3.
In an academical sense, a proficient in the faculty of arts; a philosopher.4.
One skilled in the fine arts; as a painter, sculptor, architect, &c.