Artificer
[ɑː'tɪfɪsə] or [ɑr'tɪfəsɚ]
Definition
(n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
(n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
(n.) A cunning or artful fellow.
(n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
Typed by Jody
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Artist (not of the highest grade), manufacturer, superior artisan, skilful mechanic, TRADESMAN.
Typed by Elvin
Examples
- Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours, as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some part of the capital of every master artificer or manufacturer must be fixed in the instruments of his trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- D?dalus (= cunning artificer) was a sort of personified summary of mechanical skill. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or artificer, is likely to gain any new settlement, either by apprenticeship or by service. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The civilisation of to-day would not have been possible if the successors of Tubal Cain had not been like him, instructors of every artificer in brass and iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But have you remarked that sight is by far the most costly and complex piece of workmanship which the artificer of the senses ever contrived? Plato. The Republic.
- Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is the labour of artificers and manufacturers only of which the free circulation is obstructed by corporation laws. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The condition of artificers is, if possible, still worse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Neither may they imitate smiths or other artificers, or oarsmen, or boatswains, or the like? Plato. The Republic.
- Secondly, it seems, on this account, altogether improper to consider artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, in the same light as menial servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The labour of artificers and manufacturers never adds any thing to the value of the whole annual amount of the rude produce of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The labour, on the contrary, of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, naturally does fix and realize itself in some such vendible commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Winfred