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But it was quickly evident that in that company there was one man who either was, or wished to be dictator and artifex--a man of loud voice and domineering tone, who was laying down the law to the accompaniment of vigorous thumpings of the table at which he sat.

—The Talleyrand Maxim

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An artificer. [Rare.]

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"The artifex verborum of the dream ... was no less adept than the waking Coleridge in the metamorphosis of words." — Ralph the Sacred River
Ralph Zeuss said 12: 32PM on 10-21-2009 artifex said 3: 38AM on 10-21-2009 — The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
And Patrick founded a church there, where Conu the artifex is, the brother of Bishop Sechnall. — The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
But it was quickly evident that in that company there was one man who either was, or wished to be dictator and artifex--a man of loud voice and domineering tone, who was laying down the law to the accompaniment of vigorous thumpings of the table at which he sat. — The Talleyrand Maxim
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