creat 
In the manage, an 
[ < en-ale + -able.'} 
see create, r. Cf. create.] 
usher to a riding-master. 
creatable (kre-a'ta-bl), a. 
That may be created. 
create (kre-iif), r. ; pret. and pp. created, ppr. 
creatina. [< L. i-rt-ntn.1, pp. of creare (> It. cre- 
am, cr'iare = Sp. Pg. crear, eriar = F. crier), 
make, create, akin to Or. upaivnv, complete, Skt. 
/<(-, make.] I. Iran*. 1. To bring into being; 
catiHo to exiHt ; specifically, to produce without 
the prior existence of the material used, or of 
other things like the thing produced ; produce 
out of nothing. 
In the lifuiiiniiiu, Owl created tlic heaven anil the earth. 
Oen. I. 1. 
I was all ear, 
And took in strains that might create a soul 
Under the ribs of death. MMon, Counts, 1. 661. 
It la impossible for man to create force. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 295. 
2. To make or produce from crude or scattered 
materials; bring into form; embody: as, Peter 
the Great created the city of St. Petersburg; 
Palladio created a new style of architecture. 
Untaught, nnpractis'd, in a harharous age, 
I found not, but created first the stage. 
l/ryden, ITol. to Trolliu and Cressida, 1. 8. 
As nature creates her works. 
Sir J. Reynolds, Discourses, xiv. 
3. To make or form by investing with a new 
character or functions ; ordain ; constitute ; ap- 
point: as, to create one a peer. 
I create you 
Companions to our person. 
Shale., Cymheline, y. 6. 
On the first of Septemlier this Year, the King, being at 
Windsor, created Anne Bullen Marchioness of Pembroke, 
giving her one thousand Pounds Land a Year. 
Bakrr, Chronicles, p. 281. 
4. To be the occasion of ; bring about; cause; 
produce. 
Was it tolerable to be supposed a liar for so vulgar an 
object as that of creating a stare by wonder-making? 
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elements into a new entity: as, the creation of 
a character in a play. 
The creation of a compact and solid kingdom nut of a 
number of rival uml ho.tile f, mlal provinces. 
.S'tiiW.., Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 226. 
3. That which is created ; that which has been 
produced or caused to exist ; a creature, or crea- 
un"i i* mvi**i> Jtti pro^rCHs. 
tures collectively ; specifically, the world; the cre atorship (krt;-ii'lor-ship), n. [< creator 
universe. 
K< ir we know that the whole creation groaneth and tra- 
vaileth In pain together until now. Kom. vlll. 22. 
As subject* then the whole creation came 
Sir J. Denham, Progress of learning. 
4. An act or a product of artistic or mechani- 
cal invention ; the product of thought or fancy : 
as, a creation of the brain ; a dramatic creation. 
A false creation, 
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain. 
Shak., Macbeth, II. 1. 
creaturely 
Mich a man, If not actually a creator, yet so 1 
ni-nlly "lie ho moulded :lie ereatlons of uthen into new 
shapes, might well take to himself a name from the su- 
preme delt> of In- eri-ed. K. A. AVMMn, Venice, p. 140. 
2. Figuratively, that by means of which any- 
thing is brought into existence ; a creative me- 
iliiini or agency: as, steam is the creator of 
industrial 
hip (kre-a ... 
-.Wn>.] The state or condition of being a cre- 
ator. 
creatress (kre-a'tres), n. [< creator + -eta ; after 
r'. ereatriee = It. creatrice, < L. creatrix (crea- 
tric-), fern, of creator : see creator.] A woman 
who creates, produces, or constitutes. 
Him long she so with shadowes entertain'd. 
As her Creatrente had in charge to her ordain d. 
Spenter, V. Q., III. vlll. 10. 
creatrix (kre-a'triks), . [L.: see creatress.] 
Same as creatress. 
It was rumoured that the Company's servants hail 
6. To beget; generate; bring forth. 
This shall be written for the generation to come : and 
the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 
Ps. ell. 18. 
II. trans. To originate ; engage in origina- 
tive action. 
The glory of the fanner Is that, in the division of labor, 
It is his part to create. Emerson, Farming. 
create (kre-af), a. [< ME. treat, create; < L. 
creatus, pp. : see the verb.] Begotten ; com- 
posed; created. [Poetical.] 
With hearts create of duty and of zeal. 
Shale., Hen. V., II. 2. 
Choice pictures and creation* of curious art. Dinraeli. creatural (kre'tur-al), a. [< creature + -al.] 
1. Pertaining or relating to creatures or cre- 
ated things. 2f. Creative. 
Self-moving substance, that lie Hi definition 
Of souls, t hut 'longs to them In generall : 
'I In- well expresseth that common condition 
Of every vltall center creaturall. 
Dr. II. More, Psychathanaaia, I. II. 2f>. 
Creatural dualism, the doctrine of a distinction lie- 
tweeu the spirit and the natural soul. 
creature (kre'tur), w. and a. [< ME. creature, 
< OF. crraturc~,\?. creature = Pr. creatura = Sp. 
Pg. criatura = It. creatura, < LL. creatura, a 
creature, the creation, < L. creare, pp. creatus, 
create: seecrenfe, r.] I. . 1. A created thing; 
hence, a thing in general, animate or inanimate. 
O se creatura vnkynde t thou Iren, thou steel, thou scharp 
thorn ! 
How durst 3e slee oure Iwst frend ? 
Political Poenti, etc. (ed. Furoivall), p. 209. 
flod's first creature was light. Bacon, New Atlantis. 
As the Lord was pleased to convert Paul as he was In 
persecuting, etc., so he might manifest himself to him as 
he was taking the moderate use of the creature called to- 
bacco. H iHthrop, Hist. New England, I. 32!i. 
The rest of us were greatly revived and comforted by 
that good creature fire. 
K. L. Strceiuon, Silverado Squatter*, p. 140. 
2. Specifically, and most commonly, a living 
created being; an animal or animate being. 
For so work the honey-bees ; 
Creature* that by a rule In nature teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 
Shale., Hen. V., I. 2. 
There Is not a creature bears life shall more faithfully 
study to do you service in all offices of duty and vows of 
due respect. Ford, Love's Sacrifice, I. 1. 
Millions of spiritual creature* walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 6T7. 
3. In a limited sense, a human being : used ab- 
solutely or with an epithet ( poor, idle, loir, eto., 
or good, pretty, street, etc.), in contempt, com- 
miom^itiftn rti anAfttmn&rtt AH ftn itlle creature : 
6. The act of investing a person with a new 
character or function ; appointment : as, the 
creation of peers in England. 
So formal a creation of honorarie Doctors had seldome 
ben seene that a convocation should be call'd on purpose 
and speeches made by the Orator. 
Evelyn, Diary, July 15, 1609. 
Whenever a peerage liecame extinct, he [the klngl might 
make a creation to replace it. Lecky, Eng. In 18th Cent. ,11. 
Creation money, a customary annual allowance or pen- 
sion from the crown in England, in the fourteenth and 
fifteenth centuries, to each newly created peer, the sum 
varying with the dignity of the rank, commonly at least 
40 to a duke, 35 to a marquis, 20 to all earl, and -'>< 
marks to a viscount. 
The duke generally received a pension of forty pounds 
per annum on his promotion, which was known as creation 
money. Stubbn, Const. Hist., i 42s. 
The days of creation. See dayi. Theory of special 
creations, in Mat., the view that the different species, or 
higher groups, of animals and plants were brought into 
existence at different times sulistantially as they now ex- 
ist : opposed to the theory of ecolutiun. - Sjrn. 3. M'rM, 
etc. See tmirer**. 
DC Quiiuxy, Herodotus. cre ational (kre-a'shon-al), a. [< creation + -/.] 
' 
Pertaining to creation. 
things were created, substantially as they now 
exist, by the fiat of an omnipotent Creator, and 
not gradually evolved or developed: opposed to 
evolutionism. 2. The doctrine that Glod imme- 
diately creates out of nothing a new soul for each 
individual of the human family, while for the 
human body there was but one creative flat. 
See traducianism. 
creationist (kre-a'sbon-ist), n. [< creation + 
-ist.] One who holds or favors the doctrine of 
creationism, in either sense of that word. 
creative (kre-a'tiv), a. [= Sp. It. creatiro; as 
create + -ire.] Haying the power or function 
creatic (kre-at'ik), a. [< Or. c/)far (xprar-), flesh, pf creating or producing; employed in creat- m iseration, or endearment : as,an idle creature ; 
4- _,, 1 li'ulfitiiitr T.A rlsh nr Aiiimul food. in<r- rolatincr In i-visii ion in :inv srnsr : as. the i...* *... r ..-.//,, ..,-.,./,,., * o -,<.,! , , , ,i 
UllUtir C/CWtfMIMC. AJOU opoll7*A l/r &&, n-, /***. 
creatinine, creatinin (kre-at'i-nin or -nin, -nin), 
w. [=. creatinine; < cre'atin + -ine 2 , -in 2 .] An 
alkaline crystallizable substance (C4H 7 N 3 O) 
obtained by the action of acids on creatiue, and 
found in the juice of muscular flesh. Also 
spelled kreatinine, kreatinin. 
This substance [creotmiiie], which also forms prismatic 
of these two sulMtances, both chemical and physiological, 
pretty clearly Indicate that creatinine U to be regarded as 
a derivative from creatine ; for whilst the latter predomi- 
nates In the juice of flesh almost to the exclusion of the 
former, the former predominates In the urine almost to 
the exclusion of the latter. 
IK. R. CariK'iiti'r, Prin. of Human Physiol., $ 80. 
ing; relating to creation in any sense: as, the 
creative word of God; creative power; a creative 
imagination. 
Or from the power of a peculiar eye, 
Or by creatire feeling overborne, 
Even In their tlx'd and steady lineaments 
He traced an ebbing and a flowing mind. 
H'ordftieorth. 
+ -ic.] Delating to flesh or animal food. 
Creatic nausea, abhorrence of llesh food : a symptom In 
some diseases. 
creatine, kreatine (kre'a-tin), n. [= F. crea- 
tine, < Gr. Kptac, (njKar-), flesh, + -ine*.] A neu- 
tral crystallizable organic substance (C^gNg 
O 2 ) obtained from muscular tissue. See extract 
under ereatiniue. Also spelled creatin, kreatin. 
The rich black loam, precipitated by the creative river. 
1>< Quinccy, Herodotus. 
alkaline ' crystallizable' substance" ('C 4 H 7 N 3 O) without imagination we might have critical power, but 
__j JX5 *: , -_:j_ -*;..;> .! notcreatiw power In science. 
Tyndall, Forms of Water, p. 34. 
Creative Imagination, plastic imagination ; the power 
of imagining objects different from any that have been 
known by experience. 
crystals, mod'erately soluble in water, differs considerably creativeness (kre-a'tiv-nes), H. The character 
from creatine in Its chemical relations. . . . The relations or f acu ity of being creative or productive ; ori- 
ginality. 
All these nations I French, Spanish, and English] had the 
same ancient examples before them, had the same rever- 
ence for antiquity, yet they Involuntarily deviated, more 
or less happily, into originality, success, and the freedom 
of a living creatirenen. LoireU, study Windows, p. 219. 
creation (kre-a'shon). n. [< ME. creation, -don, creator (kre-a'tor), n. [< ME. creator, creatour, 
< OF. creation, Y. creation = Pr. creaKo, crea:o creatur, < OF. creator, creatour, F. createur = 
= Sp. creacion = Pg. criacSo = It. creazione, < L. Pr. creator = Sp. Pg. criador = It. creatore, < 
creatio(n-), < creare, pp. creatus, create : see ere- L. creator, a creator, maker, < creare, pp. creatus, 
ate, v.] 1. The act of creating or causing to make, create: see create, r.] 1. One who cre- 
exist ; especially, the act of producing both the ates, in any sense of that word, or brings some- 
material and the form of that which is made; thing into existence; especially, one who pro- 
production from nothing; specifically, the on- Juees something out of nothing; specifically 
giual formation of the universe by the Deity. =i~i i-* \ n~* _ m ^-nj .... \,**, 
rhaos heard his voice : him all his train 
Follow 'd in bright procession to behold 
Creation, and the wonders of his might. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 22,'t. 
2. The act of forming or constituting; a bring- 
ing into existence as a unit by combination of 
means or materials; coordination of parts or 
nothing. 
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 
Eccl. ill. 1 
It is the poets and artists of Greece who are at the same 
what a creature ! & pretty creature; a ntcee t crea- 
ture. 
The world hath not a sweeter creature. 
Shot., Othello, Iv. 1. 
4. Something regarded as created by, spring- 
ing from, or entirely dependent upon some- 
thing else. 
That this English common law Is the creature of Chris- 
tianity has never been questioned. 
A. A. Uodge, New Princeton Rev., III. 40. 
5. Specifically, a person who owes his rise and 
fortune to another ; one who is subject to the 
will or influence of another; an instrument ; a 
tool. 
Am not I here, whom you have made your creature f 
That owe my being to you 1 B. Jotuon, Volpone, L 1. 
By his subtlety, dexterity, and Insinuation, he got now 
to be principal Secretary; absolutely Lord Arlington's 
creature, and ungratefull enough. 
Kn-lyii, Diary. July 22, 1(174. 
6. Intoxicating drink, especially whisky. 
[Humorous, from the passage 1 Tim. iv. 4, 
"Every creature of God is good," used in de- 
fense of the use of wine.] 
I find my master took too much of the creature last 
night, and now Is angling for a yuarrel. 
Dryden, Amphitryon, III. 
That yon will turn over this measure of the comfortable 
creature, which the carnal denominate brandy. 
Snrft, Old Mortality, iii. 
II. a. Of or belonging to the body : us, crea- 
ture comforts. 
creaturelesst (kre'tur-les), a. [< creature H 
-Jess.] Without creatures. 
Clod was alone 
And creaturelcM at first. 
Donne, To the Countess of Bedford. 
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