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

t the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

e were thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are not the result of special creative acts. See the Note under Darwinian.

s also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. Milton.

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.

Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom he produced differential favors. Motley.

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.

reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.…

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

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.

Diversion; amusement; recreation. [R.]

Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. It [culture] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp. -- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle.

Milton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16.

A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.