Article Definition
ärtĭ-kəl
articled, articles, articling
noun
articles
An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item.
An article of clothing; articles of food.
American Heritage
One of the sections or items of a written document, as of a constitution, treaty, contract, etc.
Webster's New World
A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.
American Heritage
The parts of a formal declaration, or of a body of rules, beliefs, etc., considered as a whole.
Webster's New World
A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine.
American Heritage
verb
articled, articles, articling
To bind by articles set forth in a contract, such as one of apprenticeship.
American Heritage
To set forth (charges) in an indictment.
Webster's New World
To bind by the articles of an agreement or contract.
An articled apprentice.
Webster's New World
To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
To article an apprentice to a mechanic.
Wiktionary
Stat. 33 Geo. III.
He shall be articled against in the high court of admiralty.
Wiktionary
Origin of Article
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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”); prop. diminutive of artus (“a joint”), akin to Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (arthron, “joint, limb”), from root *ar (“to fit, join”); see arm, art, etc.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French from Latin articulus joint, article diminutive of artus joint (translation of Greek arthron joint, article) ar- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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