creation (kreashon)

[ Chaos heard his voice: him all his train Follow'd in bright proce ion to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Milton, P. L., vii. 223. 2. The act of forming or constituting; a bringing into existence as a unit by combination of means or materials; coördination of parts or 1339 elements into a new entity: as, the creation of a character in a play. The creation of a compact and solid kingdom out of a number of rival and hostile feudal provinces. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 226. 3. That which is created; that which has been produced or caused to exist; a creature, or creatures collectively; specifically, the world; the universe. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travail eth in pain together until now. Rom. viii. 22. As subjects then the whole creation came. Sir J. Denham, Progre of Learning. 4. An act or a product of artistic or mechanical invention; the product of thought or fancy: as, a creation of the brain; a dramatic creation. A false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppre ed brain. Shak . , Macbeth, ii. 1. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Disraeli. 5. The act of investing a person with a new character or function; appointment: as, the creation of peers in England. So formal a creation of honorarie Doctors had seldome ben seene, that a convocation should be call'd on purpose and speeches made by the Orator. Evelyn , Diary, July 15, 1669. Whenever a peerage became extinct, he [the king] might make a creation to replace it. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., ii. Creation money, a customary annual allowance or pension from the crown in England, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to each newly created peer, the sum varying with the dignity of the rank, commonly at least £40 to a duke, £35 to a marquis, £20 to an earl, and 20 marks to a viscount. The duke generally received a pension of forty pounds per annum on his promotion, which was known as creation money . Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 428. The days of creation. See dayl. - Theory of special creations, in biol., the view that the different species, or higher groups, of animals and plants were brought into existence at different times substantially as they now exist: opposed to the theory of evolution. = Syn. 3. World, etc. See universe. creaturely Such a man, if not actually a creator , yet so pre-eminently one who moulded the creations of others into new shapes, might well take to himself a name from the supreme deity of his creed. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 140. 2. Figuratively, that by means of which anything is brought into existence; a creative medium or agency: as, steam is the creator of modern industrial progre . creatorship (kre-at or-ship), n. [