2012_05_24 Demiurge n.造物主 magistrate

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 24, 2012
demiurge \DEM-ee-urj\, noun:
1. Philosophy. A. Platonism. The artificer of the world. B. (In the Gnostic and certain other 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.
Larger than a character, the river is a manifest presence, a demiurge to support the man and the boy, a deity to betray them, feed them, all but drown them, fling them apart, float them back together.
 -- Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art
The gnostics think this world was created by a bad god—a demiurge—who wandered too far from the True God and somehow got perverted.
 -- Derek Swannson, Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg
Demiurge meant "a worker for the people" in Ancient Greek, from the roots dḗmio- meaning "of the people" and -ergos, "a worker."

造物主\ DEM的EE-urj的\，名詞：

1。哲學。 A.柏拉圖。世界的設計者。 B.（諾斯底和某些其他系統）一種超自然的想像創造或塑造隸屬的世界最高的存在，有時邪惡的鼻祖。
2。在古希臘的許多國家公職人員或裁判官。

超過一個字符較大，河流是一個清單存在，造物主，以支持該名男子和男孩，背叛他們的神，餵它們，但淹沒他們，他們除了一扔，漂浮他們重新走到一起。
- 諾曼·梅勒，鬼的藝術

該Gnostics認為這個世界是由一個壞神的造物主誰徘徊太遠，從真神，不知怎麼變態。
- 德里克Swannson，崩潰戈登和金斯堡的奧秘

造物主的意思是“人民的工人”在古希臘從根部意義dḗmio“人民”和-ergos，，“一名工人。”