| art | rhetorical art, verbal artistry |
| artificial | showing creative artistry, artistically skilful |
| artist | medical practitioner, physician |
| artist | scholar, intellectual, learned man |
| carve | design, make up, shape artistically |
| curiously | elaborately, artistically, exquisitely |
| Helicons | nine Muses from the slopes of Mt Helicon, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who give artistic inspiration |
| Muse | one of the nine goddesses in Greek mythology, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who gave artistic inspiration; also called the Helicons, as they lived on Mt Helicon |
| quaintly | elaborately, artistically, with skill |
| workmanly | skilfully, with great artistry |