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Artificer

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ar⋅tif⋅i⋅cer

[ahr-tif-uh-ser]
–noun
1. a person who is skillful or clever in devising ways of making things; inventor.
2. a skillful or artistic worker; craftsperson.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < AF artificer, perh. < ML artificiārius; see artifice, -er 2
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ar·tif·i·cer   (är-tĭf'ĭ-sər)   
n.  
  1. A skilled worker; a craftsperson.

  2. One that contrives, devises, or constructs something: "The labyrinth . . . was built by Daedalus, a most skillful artificer" (Thomas Bulfinch).

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Artificer

a person engaged in any kind of manual occupation (Gen. 4:22; Isa. 3:3).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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