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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

δημιουργόσ

a worker for the people, a workman, especially the maker of the world, the Creator;

δήμιοσ

belonging to the people (fr.

δῆμοσ

the people) +

ἔργον

a work.]

(Gr. Antiq.)

The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.

God, as the Maker of the world.

According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

Noun.

[Gr., a public servant, and work.] In the mythology of Eastern Philosophers, an eon employed in the creation of the world; a subordinate workman.

See also: demiurge and Demiurge

démiurge m ‎(plural démiurges)