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  1.  Belonging to, or connected with, artists or art.

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1801.  W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., I. 389. An object of artistical imitation.

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1857.  Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, 31. There is another thing notable about this artistical gold.

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  2.  = ARTISTIC.

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1853.  Thackeray, Eng. Humourists, vi. 284. I suppose Sterne had this artistical sensibility.

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1857.  Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, i. (1868), 31. In the greatest artists, their proper artistical faculty is united with every other.

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  † 3.  Produced by art, cleverly contrived. rare.

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1849.  Stovel, Canne’s Necess., Introd. 75. This Dr. Burgess wished to hide by artistical distinctions.

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