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Webster 1913 Edition


Creation

Cre-a′tion

(kr?-A′sh?n)
,
Noun.
[L.
creatio
: cf. F.
cr[GREEK]ation
.
See
Create
.]
1.
The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
From the
creation
to the general doom.
Shakespeare
As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist,
in rerum natura
, which had before no being; and this we call
creation
.
Locke.
2.
That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
We know that the whole
creation
groaneth.
Rom. viii. 22.
A dagger of the mind, a false
creation
.
Shakespeare
Choice pictures and
creations
of curious art.
Beaconsfield.
3.
The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
An Irish peer of recent
creation
.
Landor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Creation

CREATION

,
Noun.
1.
The act of creating; the act of causing to exist; and especially, the act of bringing this world into existence. Romans 1.
2.
The act of making, by new combinations of matter, invested with new forms and properties, and of subjecting to different laws; the act of shaping and organizing; as the creation of man and other animals, of plants, minerals, &c.
3.
The act of investing with a new character; as the creation of peers in England.
4.
The act of producing.
5.
The things created; creatures; the world; the universe.
As subjects then the whole creation came.
6.
Any part of the things created.
Before the low creation swarmed with men.
7.
Any thing produced or caused to exist.
A false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.

Definition 2024


création

création

See also: creation and créâtion

French

Noun

création f (plural créations)

  1. creation

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