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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.

Creating amiss. [R.]

Having the power to beget; generative. Sir M. Hale.

The power of generating.

Creating anew; as, re-creative power.

rating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting. Let the music of them be recreative. Bacon. --- Rec"re*a`tive*ly, adv. -- Rec"re*a`tive*ness, n.

o, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

n in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative. "Demiurgic power." De Quincey.

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

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.…

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

eration which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

Creative; imaginative. [R.] "The formful brain." Thomson.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. Dryden.