The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artificially \Ar`ti*fi"cial*ly\, adv.
In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
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Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.]
The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought.
--Tillotson. -
Craftily; artfully. [Obs.]
Sharp dissembled so artificially.
--Bp. Burnet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c.; see artificial + -ly (2).
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an artificial manner. 2 By or because of human effort.
WordNet
adv. not according to nature; not by natural means; "artificially induced conditions" [syn: unnaturally, by artificial means] [ant: naturally]
Usage examples of "artificially".
It was artificially produced by the Ancient Masters when their hour of need had come.
This all becomes of practical interest with the discovery of how to artificially simulate gravity.
But it has now been shown that deep artificially constructed shelters do in fact exist.
Apparently, unlike our artificially developed oral contraceptives, these have no harmful side-effects, and are chiefly used in periods of drought or food shortages, so that children are not born who cannot be fed.
Wheat has to be cultivated artificially, otherwise it will degenerate and be vanquished by wild grasses.
If disease, however, was loosed artificially - we have previously mentioned the possibility of bacteriological warfare - then it is possible either that this form of warfare was geographically limited, or that some populations were able to prepare forms of defence against it.
Hamburgers, pork chops, chicken, everything was artificially processed.
On the other hand, microwaves were easily generated artificially, and mankind had been doing just that ever since the war.
It may be entirely removed for the time by wetting the wool in hot water, then drying it in a stretched condition, or the curl may be artificially induced by unequal drying, a fact which is turned to practical account in the curling of feathers and of hair.
Saturated with Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus -- Drying Apparatus, in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created, Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere -- Drying by Means of Superheated Steam, without Air --Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material, Losses of Heat -- Index.
A colleague who left his research team to surface, years later, as codeveloper of the first artificially intelligent encyclopedia.
This vein, however, has been blocked artificially and treated to reduce osmosis.
He was inoculated against the local and the artificially introduced strains of malaria, yellow jack, typhus, and dengue fever.
On entering Neutralia he was pleased to find himself in a region free of artificially imposed mood.
Laedo wondered how many Erspias there were, each with its own artificially induced human quirk.