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Meanings of artificer in English

Portuguese
artífice
Catalan
artesà
Wikidata

A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft.

artífice
Portuguese
artífice
Wikidata

Appointment held by a member of an armed-forces service who is skilled at working on electronic, electrical, electro-mechanical and/or mechanical devices.

Related terms
artífice
Portuguese
inventores por nacionalidade
Catalan
descobridor
Spanish
artífice

Someone who is the first to think of or make something.

inventores por nacionalidade
Catalan
artificier

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

artificier
Usage of artificer in English
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These are useful, but never forget: cleverness and caution profit the artificer.
The Wise Man’s Fear
2
Magnets, all done with magnets, the cutting edge of the artificer's trade.
Empire in black and gold
3
Kubera the artificer stood at Yama's side, and he regarded the psych-tapes.
Lord of Light
4
The only survivors were Simmo, Rahnd, Rustina, Tuniz the artificer, and Irisis.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
5
SOCRATES: Then arithmetic as well as rhetoric is an artificer of persuasion?
Gorgias
6
She had spurned the little artificer and now he was Irisis's lover.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
7
The artificer glanced at their victim, but Thalric shook his head impatiently.
Empire in black and gold
8
By the way, you've done some interrogation work, haven't you, as an artificer?'
Empire in black and gold
9
His artificer's hands needed work, to stop his mind from worrying.
Empire in black and gold
10
The artificer copies the divine idea and the painter copies him.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
11
We must speak to this raja's artificer; we have no choice.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
12
College scholar, artificer, traveller -so what brought you to this sordid trade?'
Empire in black and gold
13
The artificer engineer informed me that the water was over the engine-room gratings.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, I...
14
The infernal artificer of the accursed work had wished it so.
The Teeth of the Tiger
15
Tubal Cain, the instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.
Mornings in Florence
16
Wherefore he called it the infallible guard and artificer of night and day.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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