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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. [1913 Webster] From the creation to the general doom. --Shak.
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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.
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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.
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We know that the whole creation groaneth. --Rom.
viii. 22.
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A dagger of the mind, a false creation. --Shak.
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Choice pictures and creations of curious art.
--Beaconsfield.
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3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character;
appointment; formation.
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An Irish peer of recent creation. --Landor.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
