单词 | artifex |
释义 | artifexn. = artificer n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > construction > one who constructs maker1297 artificer1533 artifex1605 constructor1751 fabricant1756 1605 R. Mason Reasons Academie 50 The more neerer reason (with reuerend careof yt creator) searcheth into these causes, the more neerer doth it bring the soule of man to the principal Artifex and maker of them. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. i. 2 The great artifex of nature. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Bk. of Wisdom in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 486 The Artifex of all things. a1754 H. Fielding Wks. (1762) VIII. 235 Hence it was that the great artifex Nero arrived at so great skill. 1875 B. H. Becker Sci. London xi. 259 The artifex was paid an immense price, but let us think of the time occupied in earning the money! 1926 Jrnl. Philos. 23 227 What artist could refuse himself this chance of meeting that other Artist, the divine Artifex who fashioned the harmonious spheres? 1979 R. Kelly Kill the Messenger 72 Now how abashed I pay him honor, septuagintine Byzantine, artifex, born in the lifetime of Lenin. 2000 W. Monahan Light House xlvi. 216 He felt that pressure..brought out the best in an Artist, separated the artist from the artifex. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1605 |
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