different between artful vs artfull

English

Alternative forms

• artfull (obsolete)

Etymology

art +? -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????t.f?l/

Adjective

artful (comparative more artful, superlative most artful)

1. Cunning; tending toward indirect dealings; crafty.
2. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
3. Artificial; imitative.
4. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

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• See also Thesaurus:wily

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• Futral

English

Adjective

artfull (comparative more artfull, superlative most artfull)

1. Obsolete spelling of artful
   • 1612: George Wither, Epithalamia: or, Nuptiall Poems upon the mo?t Ble??ed and Happie Mariage betweene the High and Mightie Prince Frederick the fifth, Count Palatine of the Rhein, Duke of Bauier, &c., And the mo?t Vertuous, Gracious and Thrice Excellent Prince??e, Elizabeth, ?ole Daughter to our dread Soueraigne, Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the Faith, &c.; Celebrated at White-Hall the fourteenth of Februarie, 1613, page unknown:

     The nights ?trange * pro?pects, made to feede the eyes;
     With Artfull fyres, mounted in the skies:
     Graced with horred claps of ?ulphury thunders;
     May make your mind, Iehouahs greater wonders.