Opificer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who creates or makes something. obsolete

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From Latin opifex.

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