a. and adv. [f. ARTIST + LIKE.]

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  A.  adj. Befitting an artist, artistic.

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1711.  Shaftesbury, Char. (1737), II. 407. A superiour art, or something artist-like, which guided their hand.

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1784.  Reynolds, Disc., xii. (1876), 52. The true method of forming an artist-like mind.

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1837.  Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc., XVII. ii. § 1. We have no designs that are more artist-like.

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  B.  adv. In the manner of an artist; artistically.

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1837.  Macready, Remin., II. 90. Acted Leontes artist-like but not … very effectively.

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c. 1842.  Tennyson, Memory, v. Artist-like Ever retiring thou dost gaze On the prime labour of thine early days.

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