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planations of the Epicurean philofophy ; but he has been 
detailed in this as a confiderable plagiary of Gaftendi. 
CREED, f [from credo , the firft word of the ap'oftles 
creed.] A form of words in which the articles of faith 
are comprehended.—The larger and fuller view of this 
foundation is let down in-the creeds of the church. Ham- 
mond. —Any folemn profeflion of principles or opinion : 
For me, my lords, 
) love him not, nor fear him ; there’s my creed. Shakefp. 
The molt ancient form of creeds is that which goes 
under the name of the Apoftolic Creed : befides this, 
there are feveral other ancient forms and fcattered re¬ 
mains of creeds to be met with in the primitive records 
of the church. The principal are the Apoltolical, the 
A'thanafian, and the Nicene, creeds. Thefe three creeds 
are ufed in the public offices of the church of England ; 
and fubfeription to them is required of all the eftablilhed 
clergy. Subfeription to thefe-was alfo required of the 
diffenting teachers, by the toleration all; but from which 
they are noty relieved by flat. 19 Geo. III. 
To CREEK, v. a. See Creak. To make aharfh noife : 
Shall I flay here, 
Creeking my fhoes on the plain mafonry ? Shakefp care. 
CREEK, f. [cjiecca, Sax. kreke, Dut.] A prominence 
or jut in a winding coaft: 
As flreams, which with their winding banks do play, 
Stopp’d by their creeks , run foftly thro’ the plain. Davies. 
A fmall. port; a bay ; a cove.-—A law was made here 
to flop their paffage in every port and creek. Davies .— 
Any turn, or alley.—A back-friend, a flioulder-clapper; 
one that commands the paflages of alleys, creeks, and nar- 
row lanes A Skakefpeare. 
CREEK INDIANS, a nation inhabiting, the middle 
parts of Georgia, in North America, where the country 
abounds with creeks and rivulets ; on which account the 
Knglifh firft called them the Creek Indians. The proper 
name of this nation is Muskogulge, or Mujkogee, to 
which we beg to refer the reader. 
CREEK'Y ;i fl^/'. Full of creeks ; unequal; winding: 
Who, leaning on the belly of a pot, 
Pour’d forth a water, whofe outgufhing flood 
Run bathing all the creeky fhore a-flot, 
Whereon the Trojan prince fpilt Turnus’ blood. Spcnfer. 
To CREEP, v. n. pret. crept, [cpypan, Sax. krepan , 
Germ.] To move with the belly to the ground, with¬ 
out legs, as a worm : 
Ye that walk 
The earth, and flately tread, or lowly creep! Milton. 
To grow along the ground, or on other fupports : 
The grottos cool, with fliady poplars crown’d, 
And creeping vines on arbours Weav’d around. Dryden. 
To move forward without bounds or leaps, as infells. 
To move flowly and feebly : 
Why fhould a man 
Sleep when he wakes, and creep into-the jaundice 
By being peevifh ? ShakeJpcare. 
To move Secretly ajnd clandeflinely ; 
Whate’er you are, 
That in this defart inaccefiible, 
Under the fhade of melancholy boughs, 
Lofe <ind negledl the creeping hours of time. Skakefpeare. 
To move timoroufly without foaring, or venturing into 
dangers.—We here took a little boat, to creep along the 
fea-fhore as far as Genoa. Addfon.- —To come unexpected; 
to deal forward unheard and unfeen.r—It is not to be ex¬ 
pelled that every one fhould guard his underftanding 
from being impofed on by the fophiftry which creeps into 
mod of the books of argument. Locke. —To behave with 
f.-.rvUit.y^ to fawn ; to bend : 
t 
ORE 
They were us’d to bend, 
To fend their fmiles before them to Achilles, 
To come as humbly as they us’d to creep 
To holy altars. ' Skakefpeare. 
CRREP'ER, f A fmall beautiful bird, next in fize 
to the humming-bird. See the article Certhia, vol. iv. 
p. 44. An iron ufed to Hide along the grate in kitchens. 
A kind of patten or clog worn by women. A grappling- 
iron ufed by feamen. < 
CR.EEP'HOLE,yi A hole into which any animal may 
creep to efcape danger. A fubterfuge ; an excufe. 
CREEP'ING-INDEX,yi The member of a mathe¬ 
matical inftrument ufed on the adrolabe. Afi. 
CREEP'ING-ROOT, f. ( radix repens,) in botany, 
a root which extends itfelf horizontally, putting forth 
fibres; as in mint.— Creeping-stem, ( caulis repens,) a 
dem running along the ground, or up trees, and other 
bodies, putting forth roots; as in ivy, bignonia, &c. 
CREEP'INGLY, adv. Slowly ; after the manner of a 
reptile.—The joy, which wrought into Pygmalion’s mind, 
was even fuch as, by each degree of Zelmane’s words i 
creepingly entered into Philoclea’s. Sidney. 
CR EE'PLE,yi A lame perfon ; a cripple : 
She to whom this world mud itfelf refer 
As fuburbs or the microcofm of her, 
She, die is dead, die’s dead ; when thou knovv’d this, 
Thou know’ll how lame a creeple this world is. Donne. 
CRE'FELD. See Crevelt. 
CRE'GER, a town of the American States, in Fre¬ 
derick county, Maryland, fituate on the wed dde of Mo- 
nococv river, nine miles fouth of Ennrntlburg, near the 
Pennfyl vania line, and eleven north from Frederick town. 
CREGLIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and principality of Anfpach, on the Tauber :• 
thirty miles north-wed of Anfpach, and twenty-two fouth- 
weft of Wurzburg. 
CREICH, or Kreich. See Craich. 
■ CREICH'GOW, or Crichgaw, a country of Ger« 
m^py, between Swabia and the Lower Palatinate. 
CREIL, a town of France in the department of the 
Gife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricl of Senlis 
two leagues north-weft of Senlis, and two and a half fouth 
of Clermont. 
CREIL de BOURNEZEAU, a town of France, in 
the department of Vendee, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridl of La Roche-fur-Yon : three leagues and a 
half eaft-fouth-eaft of La Roche. 
CREIL'SHEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and principality of Anfpach, on the Jaxt : 
twenty-four miles well-fouth-weft of Anfpach, and thir¬ 
teen weft-north-weft of Dunkels-buhl. 
CREL'LIUS (John), born in 1590, in a village near 
Nuremberg. After having received his education in that 
place, he embraced fome heterodox opinions, and went 
into Poland in 1612, where the Unitarians had a fchool, 
in which he became profetror, and was afterwards made 
minifter. He has written feveral tracts upon the New 
Teftament, and an anfwer to Grotius, De SatisfaBione 
Ckrifti, which Grotius drew up againft the dollrine of 
Socinus. He wrote alfo a book of morals; and died at 
Racovia, in his forty-third year. 
CRE'MA, a town of the Italian republic, once capital 
of the Cremafco, fituated in a plain on the river Serio 
and Travacone. The town is well built, the ftreets 
fpaciohs; it has a fortified caftle, and eight barracks, 
155 Venetian feet in circumference. It is, every two 
years, alternately with Lodi, the capital of the depart¬ 
ment of the Adda, and contains 8800 inhabitants, with 
feveral fine palaces and churches, the number of which, 
exclufive of the convents, amounts to thirty-three. 
Among the many charitable inftitutions, we diilinguilh 
particularly the hofpital, founded, in 1277, by fourteen 
noble families; the foundling-hofpital ; and an hofpital 
