opificer

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noun

A person who creates or makes something.

OriginLatin opifex →
Scrabble 15
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Meanings

nounopificer (plural opificers)

plural opificers

  1. obsoleteA person who creates or makes something.

    can it eſcape your penetration,—I defy it,—that ſo many play-wrights, and opificers of chit chat have ever ſince been working upon Trims and my uncle Tobys pattern.

    1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, pages 123–124

Origin

  1. Latinopifex
  2. Englishopificer

From Latin opifex.

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APA

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Chicago

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