† opificern.
Obsolete.
A person who makes, constructs, or creates something.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator
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makera1450
plasmatoura1500
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opificer1548
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opifex1649
fabricator1650
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efformer1662
essentializer1669
constituenta1676
crafter1907
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer
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opificer1548
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manufactora1649
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prepper1970
1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 162 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. lxxxix The highe Opificer Sendethe not his giftes too wone pertycularlye.
1660 Char. Italy 84 If you respect either Artificers or Opificers, all Nations have been benefited thereby.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 30 Considering the infinite distance betwixt the poor mortal Artist, and the almighty Opificer.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxiv. 124 So many play-wrights, and opificers of chit chat have ever since been working upon..my uncle Toby's pattern.
1853 G. Smith Gentile Nations (?1854) 526 The more philosophical among them called it..sometimes ‘a trinity of opificers’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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