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A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.

The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

Capable of being created. [Obs.] I. Watts.

That may be created.

That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.…

The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving. The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell.

One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise. Shak. The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs. Caird.

She who creates. Spenser.

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him…

Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.

Power of action; agency; efficiency. [Obs.] To be, both will and deed, created free. Milton.

, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.

According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

rought his dilatory policy to bear upon hiMotley. Dilatory plea (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case.

fference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. [Obs.] Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name. Milton.

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet.