creature (kretur)

and a. [ Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furņivall), p. 209. God's first creature was light. Bacon , New At lant is. As the Lord was pleased to convert Paul as he was in persecuting, etc., so he might manifest himself to him as he was taking the moderate use of the creature called tobacco. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 325. The rest of us were greatly revived and comforted by that good creature - fire. R. L. Stevens on , Silver a do Squatters, p. 140. 2. Specifically, and most commonly, a living created being; an animal or animate being. creational (krē-ā'shon-al), a. [ See traducianism . For so work the honey-bees; Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. There is not a creature bears life shall more faithfully Ford, Love's Sacrifice, i. 1. due respect. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. Milton , P. L., iv. 677. creationist (kre-a's hon-ist), n. [ creative word of God; creative power; a creative imagination. Or from the power of a peculiar eye, Or by creative feeling overborne, Even in their fix'd and steady lineaments He traced an ebbing and a flowing mind. Words worth. The rich black loam, precipitated by the creative river. De Quincey, Hero dot us. Without imagination we might have critical power, but not creative power in science. Tyndall, Forms of Water, p. 34. Creative imagination, plastic imagination; the power of imagining objects different from any that have been known by experience.