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ar·tif·i·cer
\ärˈtifəsər, ȧˈtifəsə(r) sometimes ˈär]d.əf- or ˈȧ] or ]təf-\ noun
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Etymology: Middle English artificier, artificer, from (assumed) Anglo-French artificier, from Middle French artifice + -ier -er
1.
a. : a skilled or artistic worker : a mechanic or craftsman whose handicraft requires skill or knowledge of a special kind (as a silversmith)
b. : an enlisted man or noncommissioned officer in the army or navy with specialized technical duties : armorer
< Royal Navy engine-room artificer >
< U.S. Army small arms artificer >
2. : one that makes or contrives : deviser, inventor, framer
< the grand artificer of the national life — L.P.Curtis >
3. obsolete : a cunning or artful fellow
< these base and illiterate artificers — Robert Burton > |