a. Obs. rare. [app. f. CRAFTY + (Romanic suffix) -OUS: it may, however, be of like formation to righteous:—OE. rihtwís.]

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  1.  Skilful, artistic.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., II. ix. 198. Her beldingis and her othere Craftiose doingis.

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  2.  Engaged in a handicraft.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., IV. v. 450. Craftiose men and Marchaundis.

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  Hence † Craftiously adv., skilfully.

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14[?].  Prose Legends, in Anglia, VIII. 147/22. Precyous cloþes or craftyously coloured.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 93. In Athenis … all science was kennit craftiuslie.

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