artizan

noun

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of artisan.

   “Human education joined to that of nature, may make a good citizen, a skilful artizan, or a well-bred man; but a higher power is wanting in order to produce a Bacon or a Newton.”

   “We have been artists if not artizans."”

   “"Disclosure" is what the artizan learns from the prior art or what he learns from an application asserted to disclose a novel invention.”

   “If an employer temporarily suspends the employment of a registered artizan, and in consequence of such suspension, the said artizan's total remuneration for any working week is less than £6 the fund shall as soon as practicable after application has been made, pay him an amount equal to the difference between the said remuneration and £6.”

   “The French fishing industry falls into two, not very clearly distinguished sections; the industrial fisheries, carried on in comparatively large vessels owned by shore-based companies, and the "artizan" or family fisheries carried on in (as a rule) smaller boats owned by their skippers, by family groups or, in recent years, […]”