artificialized

“Our seashore pastimes are becoming artificialized and complicated and straining,” observed Brooklyn rabbi Alexander Lyons in 1915, referring to such popular resort towns as Arverne and Long Branch.

Leisure and Recreation in the United States. 2009

Arduous & painstaking cultivation has not diminished or artificialized their music, but on the contrary — to my surprise — has mightily reinforced its eloquence and beauty.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

There were also many devices that emitted artificialized music.

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

There were also many devices that emitted artificialized music.

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

But the customs of the English nobility, while they have artificialized all the fairest scenes in the country, and ruined them for the eyes of the poet or the painter, have been the means of preserving some valuable forests, which under other circumstances would have been utterly destroyed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

Arduous & painstaking cultivation has not diminished or artificialized their music, but on the contrary -- to my surprise -- has mightily reinforced its eloquence and beauty.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Arduous & painstaking cultivation has not diminished or artificialized their music, but on the contrary -- to my surprise -- has mightily reinforced its eloquence and beauty.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Singleness and normal simplicity and separation, amid this more and more complex, more and more artificialized state of society—how pensively we yearn for them! how we would welcome their return!

Democratic Vistas: Paras. 60–89. Collect 1892

All the trees are dipt, for in artificial Holland every work of Nature is artificialized.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

Erica had guessed what she must be from the quaint and kindly meant letter which she had sent her years before, and though five years in society had somewhat artificialized Rose, she still retained much of her childishness and impetuous honesty.

We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880