HOW TO PRONOUNCE
artificer
/ɑɹˈtɪfəsɚ/
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What does artificer mean?
noun
- Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
- An inventor.
- A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A trickster.
- A savant.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɑɹˈtɪfəsɚ/
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It is here that the ardent and "unwashed artificer," and the sturdy husbandman, compare notes and measure wits with each other.
In other words, nous is nothing less than the omnipotent artificer of the material universe.
More book examples (3)
Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers.
In so far as he works with his eye fixed upon an eternal pattern he is like the human artificer in the Republic.
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.