Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who performs any work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An artificer; a workman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A person who
creates ormakes something.
Etymologies
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From Latin opifex.
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We might pretend that spelling bees represent a nostalgic yearning for the innocence of the mid-Twentieth Century before Google could be used instantly to spell or define an obscure word like opificer.
dwbrown commented on the word opificer
opificer --that so many play-wrights, and opificers of
chit-chat have ever since been working upon Trim's and my uncle Toby's pattern. From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
March 7, 2010