| 单词 | artificer of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartificer of the world b. spec. Chiefly with capital initial. God or a god, considered as the creator of the universe. Frequently with modifying adjective, as divine artificer, great artificer, etc., or in artificer of the world and variants. Cf. maker n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator wrightc888 lightOE sheppendOE sheppera1175 wroughtc1275 creatorc1300 shaper1303 maker1340 workera1382 authora1413 workman1440 workmaster1531 artificer?1555 re-creator1587 architector1639 architect1659 enlivener1663 God almighty1787 ?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. Nij The Philosopher Plato doth say, that the whole worlde is so compacte and bounde together by God the artificer, as it were with certayne knottes. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man ii. f.39 Most sapiently hath the diuine artificer decreed this part. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed i. 33 The great Artificer of the world. 1693 T. Yalden in J. Dryden Examen Poeticum 372 Archimedes, in his Crystal Sphere, Seem'd to correct the World's Artificer. 1735 T. Lewis Inq. Shape, Beauty & Stature Person of Christ ii. 95 The Christian replied, with Salt enough, that the Great Artificer of the World..was making a Coffin for his Master Julian. 1793 T. Taylor tr. Proclus in tr. Plato Cratylus 53 The fontal sun subsists in Jupiter, the perfect artificer of the world. 1835 W. Dunlap Thirty Years Ago xii. 113 The great and all-beneficent Artificer of that great universe, whose revolving worlds and central suns cherish life and motion. 1883 E. Arnold Pearls of Faith 41 Nowhere another one, we see, Wondrous ‘Artificer!’ like Thee. 1918 New Castle (Pa.) News 27 Mar. 16/5 To restore fallen man and make it possible for him to fulfil the plan of the divine Artificer. 1964 Greece & Rome 2nd Ser. 11 11 The great architect and artificer of the universe by whom all things visible and invisible were made. 2001 Jrnl. Law & Relig. 16 709 God, the great Artificer, makes artifacts that in realizing God's intentions for them redound upon their maker. < as lemmas |
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