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/ˈɑːtɪfɪsɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who is the first to think of or make something
- an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
- a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
How To Use artificer In A Sentence
- Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness. Literature and Life (Complete)
- Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
- Luke, who delivered a litter of puppies from the family's border collie last September, had passed the entrance test into the navy and had hoped to follow in his father's footsteps and become an artificer.
- Khur-om, Phoenician artificer, meaning of the name of, 81-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
- Peacham, indeed, offered drawing as ‘a gentleman's exercise’ which could also serve ‘for the necessarie use and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters, and carvers.’
- Medes and Assyrians, Virgil is the most ancient writer, who expressly mentions the soft wool which was combed from the trees of the Seres or Chinese; 62 and this natural error, less marvellous than the truth, was slowly corrected by the knowledge of a valuable insect, the first artificer of the luxury of nations. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- The separate pay scales for artificers / technicians and for other branches will disappear.
- Neither let this be jestingly conceived, bicause the works of the one be essenciall, the other in imitation or fiction: for everie understanding, knoweth the skill of ech Artificer standeth in that Idea, or fore conceit of the worke, and not in the worke it selfe. Defence of Poesie
