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"Section C"

[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.


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.
"I create you companions
to our person." Shak.


Cre*at"ic (kr?-?t"?k), a.


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