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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Create \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.
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In the beginning, God created the heaven and the
earth. --Gen. i. 1.
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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.
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Your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers. --Shak.
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Create in me a clean heart. --Ps. li. 10.
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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.
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