opificer

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin opifex.

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Noun edit

opificer (plural opificers)

(obsolete) A person who creates or makes something.
- 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:
  can it eſcape 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.

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