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n. Alternative spelling of artisan.

"It was a golden age for poets and panegyrists, koranists and literati, preachers and rhetoricians, physicians and scientists who, besides receiving high salaries and fabulous presents, were treated with all the honours of Chinese Mandarins; and, like these, the humblest Moslem — fisherman or artizan — could aspire through knowledge or savoir faire to the highest offices of the Empire."

artisan   

bannerman    self-possession    fighting-man    field-hand    gold-seeker    nonslaveholding    homemaker    endeuour    lumberjack    midland