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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In other words, Gowar, as an ingenious artificer herself, locates her most authentic reality in artifice and art.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018
The loss was acute not only because of his work’s undoubted seriousness but also because the playful side of Sebald’s originality made him a consumingly interesting and unpredictable artificer.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017
The central event in this complicated legend concerns Icarus and his father Daedalus, a brilliant artificer.
From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2013
In an assessment of Belasco’s career from 1919 the critic Ludwig Lewisohn described him as “this prestidigitator of light and shadows, this clever artificer, this glorified interior decorator.”
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2010
Socrates first leads Gorgias up the garden path, enticing him to agree that “rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other business, and that this is her crown and end.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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