artificer

Noun

Meaning

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.

A cunning or artful fellow.

A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.

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

Hitchcock finds women captivating but dangerous. She allures by nature but she is chief artificer in civilisation, a magic fabricator of persona whose very smile is an arc of deception. Camille Paglia

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. Thomas Aquinas

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Henry David Thoreau

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune. Thomas Carlyle

Another lean unwash'd artificer. King John

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