Part 2558

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; <as>as, to <ex>create</ex> one a peer</as>.</def> "I <i>create</i> you companions to our person."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Creatic</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*at"ic</hw> <tt>(kr?-?t"?k)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/, <?/<?/<?/, flesh.]</ety> <def>Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; <as>as, <ex>creatic</ex> nausea</as>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>kreatic</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Creatin</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre"a*tin</hw> <tt>(kr?"?-t?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/ flesh.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>kreatine</asp>.]</altsp><-- = creatine, C4H9N3O2 -->

<h1>Creatinin</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*at"i*nin</hw> <tt>(kr?-?t"?-n?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>kretinine</asp>.]</altsp><-- = creatinine, C4H7N3O -->

<h1>Creation</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*a"tion</hw> <tt>(kr?-A"sh?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>creatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>cr<?/ation</ets>. <ets>See</ets> <er>Create</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.</def>

<blockquote>From the <b>creation</b> to the general doom. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, <b>in rerum natura</b>, which had before no being; and this we call <b>creation</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>We know that the whole <b>creation</b> groaneth. <i>Rom. viii. 22.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A dagger of the mind, a false <b>creation</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Choice pictures and <b>creations</b> of curious art. <i>Beaconsfield.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.</def>

<blockquote>An Irish peer of recent <b>creation</b>. <i>Landor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Creational</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*a"tion*al</hw> <tt>(-<it>a</it>l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to creation.</def>

<h1>Creationism</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*a"tion*ism</hw> <tt>(-?z'm)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to <i>traducianism</i>.</def>

<h1>Creative</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*a"tive</hw> <tt>(-t?v)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.</def> "<i>Creative</i> talent."

<i>W. Irving.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>creative</b> force exists in the germ. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Creativeness</h1> <Xpage=341>

<hw>Cre*a"tive*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The qualiyu of being creative.</def>