Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Skillful contrivance; elaborate trickery; wile; deception. 2. (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. 3. (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making. 4. (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

Multi-Version Concordance Artifice (1 Occurrence) Ephesians 4:14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, (YLT)