Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An opificer; a maker; a cause.

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Examples

  • The program only needs to instantiate one classLatin, this class then creates itself a resource handler as well as that famous 'opifex' on which it relies.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Christ Kennedy 2010

  • That seems like a long time but if you're downloading this program because you need (or want) to learn latin then you won't want to go without it. classLatin uses an 'opifex', or skilled worker, to do all the work.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Christ Kennedy 2010

  • The program only needs to instantiate one classLatin, this class then creates itself a resource handler as well as that famous 'opifex' on which it relies.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Christ Kennedy 2010

  • That seems like a long time but if you're downloading this program because you need (or want) to learn latin then you won't want to go without it. classLatin uses an 'opifex', or skilled worker, to do all the work.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Christ Kennedy 2010

  • The program only needs to instantiate one classLatin, this class then creates itself a resource handler as well as that famous 'opifex' on which it relies.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Christ Kennedy 2010

  • That seems like a long time but if you're downloading this program because you need (or want) to learn latin then you won't want to go without it. classLatin uses an 'opifex', or skilled worker, to do all the work.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Christ Kennedy 2010

  • Deus optimus maximus mundi opifex, etc. The same in English.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • * Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit, et ostendit, et exinde totum quod in deum quaeritur re quoque adsignat, licet Plato adfirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem: [1595] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Like so many others of the early printers, he regarded his own performances with no little self-complacency, for in his colophons he describes himself, “Vir solertissimus, imprimendi arte nominatissimus, artis impressoriæ magister apprimè famosus, perpolitus opifex, vir sub orbe notus,” and so forth.

    Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography 1901

  • Qua ratione nisi admirabilis ille omnis boni opifex nobiscum ageret, nulla spes esset homini surgendi e lapsu per liberum arbitrium, per quod se, cum staret, praecipitavit in exitium.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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