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verb

Create v. t. (past & past part. created; pres. part. creating)

To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."

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." "Create in me a clean heart."

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."

adjective

Create adj. Created; composed; begotten. (Obs.) "Hearts create of duty and zeal."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Create" Quotes from Famous Books

... of recognition among which she had tried to lose herself, she felt a deeper sense of isolation. The music, which at another time would have swept her away on some rich current of emotion, now seemed to island her in her own thoughts, to create an artificial solitude in which she found herself more immitigably face to face with her fears. The silence, the recueillement, about her gave resonance to the inner voices, lucidity to the inner vision, till she seemed enclosed in a luminous ...

— Sanctuary • Edith Wharton

... extensively in "the first time," but it is by no means unknown to the people of the present day. They cannot now bring a dead person to life, or create human beings out of bits of betel-nut; but they can and do cause sickness and death to their foes by performing certain rites or directing actions against garments or other objects recently in their possession. Even the name of an enemy can be applied to an animal or inanimate ...

— Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore • Fay-Cooper Cole

... the present century I think they will create a Commissioner of Patents, and then I hope to get a ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the innumerable variety of beauties which man's art had developed from a few poor and wild species, it seemed to me the most delightful life on earth, to follow in such a place the primaeval trade of gardener Adam; to study the secrets of the flower-world, the laws of soil and climate; to create new species, and gloat over the living fruit of one's own science and perseverance. And then I recollected the tailor's shop, and the Charter, and the starvation, and the oppression which I had left behind, and ashamed of my own ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... this Government for the eminent services rendered by Count Corti as the third commissioner on this commission. With dignity, learning, and impartiality he discharged duties requiring great labor and constant patience, to the satisfaction, I believe, of both Governments. I recommend legislation to create a special court, to consist of three judges, who shall be empowered to hear and determine all claims of aliens upon the United States arising out of acts committed against their persons or property during the insurrection. The recent ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson

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