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st. 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.

Destruction; -- opposed to creation. [R.] Cudworth.

Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of begetting; generation and production of young. South.

A forming anew; a new creation or formation.

The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

Being or occurring before the creation of the world. Young.

The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens. H. Spencer.

-- Atmospheric railway, one in which pneumatic power, obtained from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force. -- Atmospheric tides. See under Tide.

The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.

A stroke; a blow. He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. Dryden.

Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton.

try of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. I. Taylor.

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and order forms.

. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

ction of further evidence argument. If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it. Sir M. Hale.

The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.