Usually means: Creator deity in Platonic philosophy.
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  1. demiurge: Merriam-Webster
  2. demiurge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demiurge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demiurge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demiurge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demiurge, demiurge: Wordnik
  7. Demiurge, demiurge: Wiktionary
  8. demiurge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. demiurge: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Demiurge, demiurge: Dictionary.com
  11. demiurge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Demiurge (disambiguation), Demiurge (magistrate), Demiurge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Demiurge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. demiurge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. demiurge: Rhymezone
  16. demiurge: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Demiurge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. demiurge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. demiurge: FreeDictionary.org
  20. demiurge: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. demiurge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. demiurge: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. demiurge: Legal dictionary

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  1. Demiurge: Encyclopedia

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  1. demiurge: A Word A Day

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Demiurge: Catholic Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Demiurge)

noun:  (Platonic philosophy) The (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter.
noun:  (Gnosticism) A (usually jealous or outright malevolent) being who is inferior to the supreme being, and sometimes seen as the creator of evil.
noun:  (figuratively) Something (such as an idea, individual or institution) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.
noun:  (historical, Ancient Greece) The title of a magistrate in a number of states of Ancient Greece, and in the city states (poleis) of the Achaean League.
noun:  (Platonism) The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas.
noun:  (Gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.

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