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Webster 1913 Edition


Opificer

O-pif′i-cer

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Noun.
An artificer; a workman.
[Obs.]
“The almighty opificer.”
Bentley.

Definition 2024


opificer

opificer

English

Noun

opificer (plural opificers)

  1. (obsolete) A person who creates or makes something.
    • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 3, Penguin, published 2003, page 188:
      can it escape your penetration,—I defy it,—that so many playwrights, and opificers of chit-chat have ever since been working upon Trim’s and my uncle Toby’s pattern.