<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Philosophy</li><li>Platonism</li><li>the artificer of the world</li><li>(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</li><li>(in many states of ancient Greece) a public official or magistrate</li></ul>