Cre*ate" (kr?-?t"), a.[L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. to accomplish, Skr. k to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.]
Created; composed; begotten.
[Obs.]
Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Shak.
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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.
© Webster 1913.