artificer
Americannoun
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a person who is skillful or clever in devising ways of making things; inventor.
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a skillful or artistic worker; craftsperson.
noun
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a skilled craftsman
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a clever or inventive designer
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a serviceman trained in mechanics
Etymology
Origin of artificer
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French artificer, perhaps < Medieval Latin artificiārius; see artifice, -er 2
Example Sentences
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After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging.
From Time Magazine Archive
Second Class Engine Room Artificer Ed Buckingham was getting congratulations on his 32nd birthday.
From Time Magazine Archive
This intelligent, if somewhat unyielding study of all Nabokov's literary production firmly consolidates his claim to succeed Joyce as the Old Artificer of English.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it be said that this is due to stupidity, then stupidity is one of the factors in the case which the great Artificer must be supposed to have foreseen and reckoned upon.
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William
When the power and intelligence of the supreme Artificer is conspicuous in the ultimate particles of matter, we ought to be more temperate in our invectives against the doctrine of materialism.
From On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence by Haslam, John
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