3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
An Irish peer of recent creation.
Landor.
Creational
(Cre*a"tion*al) a. Of or pertaining to creation.
Creationism
(Cre*a"tion*ism) n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as
soon as it is formed in the womb; — opposed to traducianism.
Creative
(Cre*a"tive) a. Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. "Creative talent." W.
Irving.
The creative force exists in the germ.
Whewell.
Creativeness
(Cre*a"tive*ness), n. The quality of being creative.
Creator
(Cre*a"tor) n. [L. creator: cf. F. créateur.] One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically,
the Supreme Being.
To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise.
Shak.
The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities,
and the revealers of its theological beliefs.
Caird.
Creatorship
(Cre*a"tor*ship), n. State or condition of a creator.
Creatress
(Cre*a"tress), n. [L. creatrix: cf. F. créatrice.] She who creates. Spenser.
Creatrix
(||Cre*a"trix) n. [L.] A creatress. [R.]
Creatural
(Crea"tur*al) a. Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]
Creature
(Crea"ture) n. [F. créature, L. creatura. See Create.]
1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
Fuller.
God's first creature was light.
Bacon.
On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Milton.
And most attractive is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
Cowper.
2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
The world hath not a sweeter creature.
Shak.
3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.
Shak.
Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
Macaulay.
4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.
