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Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts such as are fit for gentlemen and Scholars; in opposition to Mechanical Arts; such as depend more on Speculation than Operation, as Grammar, Rhetorick; also Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Musick.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Leaˊthersellers *
Lˊiberalness, or Libera’lity