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▪ I. architect, n.|ˈɑːkɪtɛkt|
[? a. F. architecte or It. architetto, ad. L. architectus, f. Gr. ἀρχιτέκτων, f. ἀρχι- (see archi-) + τέκτων builder, craftsman. Several of the derivatives are formed as if on L. tect-us from tegĕre; e.g. architective, -tor, -ture.]
1. A master-builder. spec. A skilled professor of the art of building, whose business it is to prepare the plans of edifices, and exercise a general superintendence over the course of their erection. (Cf. architecture 1.) naval architect: one who takes the same part in the construction of ships.
1563Shute Archit. A ij b, John Shute painter and Architecte. 1667Milton P.L. i. 732 The work some praise And some the Architect. 1758Johnson Idler No. 30 ⁋5 One pulls down his house and calls architects about him. 1815Scott Ld. of Isles iv. x, Temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect. 1854Ruskin Lect. Archit. Add. 113 No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
b. loosely, A builder.
1665–9Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiii. (1675) 249 Babel, whose scattered architects have indeed made themselves a name.
2. One who designs and frames any complex structure; esp. the Creator; one who arranges elementary materials on a comprehensive plan.
1659Parl. Speech 2 The grand Architect would never have so framed it. 1788Reid Act. Powers i. vi. 526 Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect. 1817Chalmers Astron. Disc. i. (1852) 21 The great Architect of nature. 1846Grote Greece II. xxi. 209 The inference that Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and Odyssey.
3. One who so plans, devises, contrives, or constructs, as to achieve a desired result (especially when the result may be viewed figuratively as an edifice); a builder-up.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 122 Chiefe Architect and plotter of these woes. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 526 Most strange belly-gods and architects of gluttony. 1649Milton Eikon. xxi, The architects of their own happiness. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. I. ix. 298 The Architect of his own fortunes.
b. transf. of things.
1835Lytton Rienzi viii. iii. 365, Gold is the Architect of Power! 1871J. Macduff Mem. Patmos xviii. 251 The deeds done to-day will be the architects of our bliss or woe.
▪ II. ˈarchitect, v.
[f. the n.]
To design (a building). Also transf. and fig. Hence ˈarchitected ppl. a., designed by an architect; ˈarchitecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1818Keats Let. 23 July (1931) I. 219 This was architected thus By the great Oceanus. [But see architecture v.] 1890Harper's Mag. Apr. 809/2 We would not give being the author of one of Mr. Aldrich's beautiful sonnets to be the author of many ‘Wyndham Towers’, however skilfully architected. 1912Rose Macaulay Views & Vag. viii. 153, I have no sort of interest in the architecting or building trades. 1913Raleigh Some Authors (1923) 3 He has come out of the prison-house of theological system, nobly and grimly architected. 1923Public Opinion 29 June 622/3 A..vague notion that a building ought to be architected. |