And this boke tretys of the Craft of Nombryng, the quych crafte is called also Algorym.
Accordingly we find such labored explanations as the following, from The Crafte of Nombrynge: "Euery of these figuris bitokens hym selfe & no more, yf he stonde in the first place of the rewele.
About this time, the crafte of Enpryntyng was fyrste founde in magounce in Almayne, which crafte is multiplyed through the world in many places, and bookes ben had grete chepe and in grete nombre by cause of the same crafte.
The blosmes fresshe of Tullius garden soote Present thaim not, my mater for to borne: Poemes of Virgil taken here no rote, 10 Ne crafte of Galfrid may not here sojorne: Why nam I cunning?
Neverthelesse ye than most ye be war of on [one] payn, and that is thys: Heydon wyll of crafte sende amonge yow per case vj.
Sir, I prey yow pardon me of my wryghtyng, hough so ever it be, for carpenters of my crafte that I use now, have not alderbest ther wyttys ther owne.
Thanne I anoon dide al mycrafte For to drawen out the shafte, And ther-with-al I sighed eft.
Phisiciens and advocates Gon right by the same yates; They selle hir science for winning, And haunte hir crafte for greet geting.
Eche of you sewd to have contynuall Suche wether as his crafte onely doth requyre, All wethers in all places yf men all tymes myght hyer, Who could lyve by other?
I compast hem a kynde crafte & kende hit hem derne, [Sidenote: The ordinance of marriage had been made for them, but they foully set it at nought.
Wherby ye may note, that there is great difference betwene one that doth a thynge of good will and mynde, and hym that doth a thynge bycrafte and dissymulation; whiche thinge this noble and moste prudent prince well vnderstode.
This tale is aplyed to the couetous men, whiche by al crafte and meanes study to kepe and encreace theyr money and substance; agaynst whiche vyce many thinges ben wryten.
A woman demaunded a questyon of a little chylde, sonne unto a man of lawe, of what crafte his father was; whiche chylde sayde, his father was a craftye man of lawe.
And þis boke tretys þe Craft of Nombryng, þe quych crafte is called also Algorym.
Titles (list added by transcriber): The Crafte of Nombrynge The Art of Nombryng Accomptynge by Counters The arte of nombrynge by the hande APP.
Sir," replied the young man, "I have no crafte nor science in using such instruments.
It was ordered that Mr. John Enderby (Master 1547)-- shall have the benevolense of the crafte fower marks a yere.
ALSO that no manˀ pˀsones enfraunchised in the saidCrafte or in any other occupying the same Crafte within the said Citee from hensforth take any moo appˀntices at oones than iij uppon payne of forfaiture of v{li.
Rule and sadde[52] guydyng hereafter to be hadde amongꝭ the good ffolkꝭ of the said Crafte within the same Crafte to graunt to yo{r.
The fourth Iudi- ciall / and these thre last be properly called spices or kyndes of oracions / whose natu- res shall be declared seperately hereafter with the crafte that is required in euery of them.
And this is the maner of prefaces in any oracion / whiche is also obserued in the making of epistles / how beit there is farre lesse crafte in them than is in an oracyon.
Erasmus in his boke / entituled of the maner and crafte to make epistels / in the chapitre of a persuadyng epistle.
And thus I never medelyd with hym syne, nor with thecrafte nor never wyll, God wyllyng.
And the same saturday beyng Whytson euen the mayre with all the aldermen and the craftes of the cyte prepared aray in a good order to stande and receyue her and with rayles for euery crafte to stande and leane from prease of people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crafte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
