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      Synonyms:

army,	collection,	line of battle,	parade,
arrangement,	disposition,	order,	show,
battle array,	exhibition,	order of battle,	sight.

      The phrase battle array or array of battle is archaic and poetic; we now say in line or order of battle. The parade is for exhibition and oversight, and partial rehearsal of military manual and maneuvers. Array refers to a continuous arrangement of men, so that all may be seen or reviewed at once. This is practically impossible with the vast armies of our day. We say rather the disposition of troops, which expresses their location so as to sustain and support, though unable to see or readily communicate with each other. Compare DRESS.

ARREST.

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      Synonyms:

apprehend,	detain,	restrain,	stop,
capture,	hold,	secure,	take into custody,
catch,	make prisoner,	seize,	take prisoner.

      The legal term arrest carries always the implication of a legal offense; this is true even of arresting for debt. But one may be detained by process of law when no offense is alleged against him, as in the case of a witness who is held in a house of detention till a case comes to trial. One may be restrained of his liberty without arrest, as in an insane asylum; an individual or corporation[58] may be restrained by injunction from selling certain property. In case of an arrest, an officer may secure his prisoner by fetters, by a locked door, or other means effectually to prevent escape. Capture is commonly used of seizure by armed force; as, to capture a ship, a fort, etc. Compare HINDER; OBSTRUCT.

      Antonyms:

discharge,

dismiss,

free,

liberate,

release,

set free.

      Prepositions:

      Arrested for crime, on suspicion, by the sheriff; on, upon, or by virtue of a warrant; on final process; in execution.

ARTIFICE.

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      Synonyms:

art,	craft,	finesse,	invention,	stratagem,
blind,	cunning,	fraud,	machination,	subterfuge,
cheat,	device,	guile,	maneuver,	trick,
contrivance,	dodge,	imposture,	ruse,	wile.

      A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

      E'en children followed with endearing wile.

      Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

      A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

      Antonyms:

artlessness,	fairness,	guilelessness,	ingenuousness,	openness,	sincerity,
candor,	frankness,	honesty,	innocence,	simplicity,	truth.

ARTIST.

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      Synonyms:

artificer,

artisan,

mechanic,

operative,

workman.

      Artist, artificer and artisan are all from the root of art, but artist holds to the esthetic sense, while artificer and artisan follow the mechanical or industrial sense of the word (see ART under SCIENCE).[59] Artist thus comes only into accidental association with the other words of this group, not being a synonym of any one of them and having practically no synonym of its own. The work of the artist is creative; that of the artisan mechanical. The man who paints a beautiful picture is an artist; the man who makes pin-heads all day is an artisan. The artificer

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