Cre*a"tion (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cr&?;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.
Shak.
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.
Shak.
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.
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