[L., f. arti- art + -fex, -fic-em maker, f. fac-ĕre to make.] Artificer.

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1657.  S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins., I. i. 2. The great artifex of nature.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. xxxii. 486. The Artifex of all things.

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