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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“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy…”
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2018
“But if you head to the University you’ll do better. Artificers have a great love for lodenstone. Alchemists too. If you find one in the right mood you’ll get more.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Settlement also, like the Artificers and Labourers Act, would prevent the country labourer from passing to the towns, or the townsmen passing to other towns.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
What a Multiplicity of Trades and Artificers must be employ'd?
From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob
And I shall now add, that I have Learn'd from one of the Chief Artificers that sells Painted Glass, that those of his Trade Colour it Yellow with a preparation of the Calx of Silver.
From Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) by Boyle, Robert
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