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Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

To create at the same time. If God did concreate grace with Adam. Jer. Taylor.

A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.

A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.

The cobia.

An usher to a riding master.

That may be created.

Created; composed; begotte. [Obs.] Hearts create of duty and zeal. Shak.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]

te, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue. [Written also kreatine.]

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.

Of or pertaining to creation.

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.

The qualiyu of being creative.

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.

State or condition of a creator.