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Definitions for ARTIFICER
ɑrˈtɪf ə sər, ˈɑr tə fə-ar·ti·fi·cer

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inventor, discoverer, artificernoun

    someone who is the first to think of or make something

  2. craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificernoun

    a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

  3. armorer, armourer, artificernoun

    an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

Wiktionary

  1. artificernoun

    Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.

  2. artificernoun

    An inventor.

  3. artificernoun

    A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.

  4. artificernoun

    A trickster.

  5. artificernoun

    A savant.

  6. Etymology: From artificier, from artificiarius.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Artificernoun

    Etymology: artifex, Lat.

    The lights,doors, and stairs, rather directed to the use of the guest, than to the eye of the artificer. Philip Sidney.

    The great artificer would be more than ordinarily exact in drawing his own picture. South.

    So in the practices of artificers, and the manufactures of several kinds, the end being proposed, we find out ways. John Locke.

    He soon aware,
    Each perturbation smooth’d with outward calm,
    Artificer of fraud! and was the first
    That practis’d falsehood under saintly shew. Paradise Lost.

    Th’ artificer of lies
    Renews th’ assault, and his last batt’ry tries. John Dryden, Fab.

    Let you alone, cunning artificer. Ben Jonson.

ChatGPT

  1. artificer

    An artificer is a skilled or artistic worker or craftsman who makes or invents things, particularly complex devices or systems, often associated with technical or mechanical work. This term can also refer to someone who uses trickery or deceit. Additionally, in some role-playing games, an artificer is a character class that utilizes magic to create tools, objects or machinery.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Artificernoun

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

  2. Artificernoun

    one who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer

  3. Artificernoun

    a cunning or artful fellow

  4. Artificernoun

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

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. artificer

    One who works by hand in wood or metal; generally termed an idler on board, from his not keeping night-watch, and only appearing on deck duty when the hands are turned up.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. artificer

    One who makes fire works, or works in the artillery laboratory, and prepares the shells, fuzes, grenades, etc. It is also applied to military mechanics, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, etc.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARTIFICER in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARTIFICER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ARTIFICER in a Sentence

  1. Henry David Thoreau:

    Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

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