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Definition of Opificer
1. n. An artificer; a workman.
Definition of Opificer
1. Noun. (obsolete) A person who creates or makes something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opificer
1. a craftsman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opificer
Literary usage of Opificer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... opificer by habit." Thus nature may be called the ... opificer,8 that acts
subserviently under the architec- ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... not a creature, but the Creator or opificer of the whole world. And as for
the second particular proposed, it was a gross absurdity in those Platonists ..."
3. The works of Ralph Cudworth: Containing The True Intellectual System of the by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1829)
"... Porphyrius, thinking to agree with Plotinus, calls the supermundane soul the
immediate opificer or maker of the world, and that mind or intellect, ..."
4. Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Adapted to the by John Walker (1874)
"opificer, A-pTf'-e-cer, 105,36: *. (Compare Opera. ... See with opificer.
O^-pi-ate, *. and a. A medicine that causes sleep* any thing that quiets '.—adj. ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"At the head of these angels stood one, who had the direction and control of all ;
hence called the opificer and governor of the world. ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... be the immediate opificer of the whole world, we Pagans entertain better
opinions of him, who suppose him to be the common Lord of all ; but that there ..."
7. The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton (1848)
"... opificer of the Divine understanding." The reasons which Cudworth assigns for
introducing this agent might have been adopted with little variation by ..."
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