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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.]

A white, 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.

She who creates. Spenser.

A creatress. [R.]

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]

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.

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

The condition of being a creature.