Cre*ate" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Created;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Creating.]
1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
In
the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen. i. 1.
2. To effect by the
agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
Your eye in
Scotland
Would create soldiers.
Shak.
Create in
me a clean heart.
Ps. li.
10.
3. To
invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to
create one a peer. "I
create you companions
to our person." Shak.
Cre*ate" (kr&esl;*āt"), a.[L. creatus, p. p. of
creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr. k&rsdot; to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.]
Created; composed; begotten.
[Obs.]
Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Shak.
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