ART
NOUNS
1300 ► MASTERY an art or science; a department of skill or knowledge → obs.
1340 ► CUNNING an art or science, a craft; a branch of knowledge or of skilled work; in early times: occult art, magic → obs.
1386 ► FACULTY an art, trade, occupation, profession; that in which anyone is skilled → obs. exc. arch.
1400 ► MYSTERY art, craft; a trade, profession, calling → arch.
1570 ► SKILL an art or science → obs.
1652 ► FABREFACTION the act or process of making a work of art → obs.
1674 ► PROVEXITY a being well studied in any art → obs.
1676 ► CABINET a room devoted to the display of works of art; a museum, picture-gallery, etc. → obs.
1775 ► CACOTECHNY bad art; a mischievous or hurtful art
1860 ► CALLOTECHNICS a proposed name for ‘the fine or ornamental arts’
1971 ► SYMMOGRAPHY string art; the art of making decorative pictures by winding yarn round nails driving into a flat surface
NOUNS, PERSON
1561 ► MAECENAS a generous patron of art or literature
1845 ► AESTHETICIAN a person skilled in or devoted to aesthetics; a professor of taste
1930 ► BIRD DOG an art dealer or antique dealer commissioned to find a specific object; → US sl.
1938 ► GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLER a person who studies the arts or humanities → German
VERBS
1628 ► ART to instruct in an art → obs.
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