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artificer Definition

ar·tifi·cer (är tif′ə sər; also ärt′ə fə-)

noun

  1. a skillful maker of things; skilled craftsman
  2. a person who devises; inventor

artificer Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • house: This was the temporary wooden building on stilts that stood beside the half-built lighthouse to house the artificers.

Adjective modifier

  • skillful: The labyrinth from which Theseus escaped by means of the clew of Ariadne, was built by Daedalus, a most skillful artificer.
  • poor: A number poor artificers are up In arms and threaten to avenge their wrongs.

Modifies a noun

  • training: Now a part of HMS Nelson HMS Fisgard Oct 1940 Artificer training moved from Chatham to RN Training Establishment, Torpoint.

Preposition: in

  • brass: They had their " artificers in brass and in iron; " and so have you.
artificer Quotes

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place† The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

—Paley,William

It was her voice that made The sky acutest at its vanishing. She measured to the hour its solitude. She was the single artificer of the world In which she sang.

—Stevens,Wallace

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer Made my mate.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis