Demiurge (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. Philosophy.
    • the artificer of the world.
    • (in the Gnostic and certain other belief systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
  2. (in many states of ancient Greece) a public official or magistrate.
noun
    • (in the philosophy of Plato) the creator of the universe
    • (in Gnostic and some other philosophies) the creator of the universe, supernatural but subordinate to the Supreme Being
  2. (in ancient Greece) a magistrate with varying powers found in any of several states
Demiurge (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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