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Definition of Opificers
1. opificer [n] - See also: opificer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opificers
Literary usage of Opificers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"... penetration,—I defy it,—that so many playwrights, and opificers of chit-chat,
have ever since been working upon Trim's and my uncle Toby's pattern ? ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... god ;—as the more philosophical amongst them called it also a trinity of
causes, and a trinity of principles, and sometimes a trinity of opificers. ..."
3. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"... your penetration—I defy it—that so many play-wrights, and opificers of chit-chat
have ever since been working upon Trim's and my uncle Toby's pattern. ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"For the world, according to him, is the third god ; as he supposes also two
opificers, the first and the second God.—Plotinus in like manner speaks of this ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Let us not therefore make God Almighty inferior to mortal opificers, who, by one
and the same art, can order small things as well as great ; and so suppose ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
""Let us not therefore make God Almighty inferior to mortal opificers, who, by
one and the same art, can order small things as well as great ; and so suppose ..."
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