Middle English Dictionary Entry
artificēr, -iēr n.
Entry Info
| Forms | artificēr, -iēr n. |
| Etymology | OF; cp. ML artificiārius. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who practices a craft or trade; craftsman, tradesman, workman; (b) (literary) artist; (c) a crafty person.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1691 : Artificiers, Whiche usen craftes and mestiers, Whos Art is cleped Mechanique.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)109 : Carpenters ne sowters..ne no manere of artificeris.
- (1423) RParl.4.258b : Cordewaners, Tanners, Bochers, Fysshers..Hostilers, and all other Artificers.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)439/1497 : Pray for artiffyceres, in ther besynesse Trewe to perseuere.
- (1444) RParl.5.112b : Rough Mason and meen Carpenter, and other Artificers concernyng beldyng..and every oyer Laborer.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)516 : Thei schulden haue be or gileful artificers or vnpiteful questmongers.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)1009 : This artificers se I, day be day, In þe hotteste of al hir bysynesse Talken and syng.
- (1450) RParl.5.205b : Enhabited with Marchauntes, Artificers, and lay people.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)2093 : Whoos ffadir of wevyng was an Artificeer.
- (1463) GRed Bk.Bristolpt.2 p.67 : The poore artifycers of weuer is craft.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)39 : Now, son..wiltow be a seruaunde..or an artificere?
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Just Measure (Hrl 2251)17 : Without mesure may non artificere In his wirkyng parfitely procede.
b
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)232 : An artyfycer nowe were nede to me, That coude a straunge style puryfye.
c
- a1500(c1435) ?Lydg.DM(2) (Lnsd 699)47/497 : Yeve hidir thyn hand, thou Artificeer..[Death's] strook is sodeyn, fro which no man may flee.