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Pyrotechnist

Pyrotechnist \Pyr`o*tech"nist\, n. One skilled in pyrotechny; one who manufactures fireworks.
--Steevens.

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pyrotechnist

n. 1 (context dated English) A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays. 2 One who demonstrates a brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts.

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The hint another gives us finds whole trains of thought which have been getting themselves ready to be shaped in inwardly articulated words, and only awaited the touch of a burning syllable, as the mottoes of a pyrotechnist only wait for a spark to become letters of fire.

And from him, the first class-conscious pyrotechnist, I am descended, yes, by God.

The authour of The Rambler, however, may be considered, on this occasion, as the ringleader of a successful riot, though not as a skilful pyrotechnist.