English Dictionary: create | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Create \Cre*ate"\ (kr[esl]*[amac]t"), 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Create \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. [bd]I create you companions to our person.[b8] --Shak. |