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Webster 1913 Edition


Pyrotechnist

Pyrˊo-tech′nist

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Noun.
One skilled in pyrotechny; one who manufactures fireworks.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Pyrotechnist

PYROTECHNIST

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Noun.
One skilled in pyrotechny.

Definition 2024


pyrotechnist

pyrotechnist

English

Noun

pyrotechnist (plural pyrotechnists)

  1. (dated) A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.
  2. One who demonstrates a brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts.
    • 1862, The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America
      "That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a pyrotechnist for the service of the navy, "
    • 2006, Michel Weber, Nicholas Rescher, Whitehead's Pancreativism
      "It is thus the pyrotechnist (should we say demiurge?) who gives meaning to the so to speak explosive effervescences that are weaving the world of the spectator"

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