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Create \Cre*ate"\ (kr[-e]*[=a]t"), a. [L. creatus, p. p. of
creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr.
k[.r] to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also
to crescent, cereal.]
Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]
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Hearts create of duty and zeal. --Shak.
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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.
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In the beginning, God created the heaven and the
earth. --Gen. i. 1.
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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.
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Your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers. --Shak.
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Create in me a clean heart. --Ps. li. 10.
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3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to
constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
"I create you companions to our person." --Shak.
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