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creator|kriːˈeɪtə(r)|
Forms: 3–4 -ur, 3–6 -ure, 3–7 -our, 4–5 -oure, 4– -or.
[ME. and AF. creatour, -ur = OF. creator, -ur, -our, later -eur, of learned or liturgical formation, ad. L. creātōr-em. The pop. OF. word was creere, criere.]
1. The Supreme Being who creates all things. (In OE. scieppend.)
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 111/174 For-to serui is creatour. a1300Cursor M. 1119 (Cott.) Þar-wit com our creature [v.r. creatour] For to spek wit þat traiture. c1386Chaucer 2nd Nun's T. 49, The creatour of euery creature. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxxv. 133 God, my swete creatour. a1533Ld. Berners Huon cxxii. 436 Prayse be to our lorde god my creature. 1611Bible Isa. xl. 28 The Creatour of the ends of the earth. 1667Milton P.L. x. 486 Him by fraud I have seduc'd From his Creator. 1862Ruskin Munera P. (1820) 4 Human nature, as its Creator made it.
2. a. gen. One who, or that which, creates or gives origin to.
1579Fulke Heskin's Parl. 154 We haue learned of their owne writers..that a Priest is..the creator of his creator. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. ii, Translated thus from a poor creature to a creator; for now must I create an intolerable sort of lies. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. v, Since it thus appears that custom was the creator of prelaty. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. i. vii. 35 Winchester was not the first that..professed such universal Obedience to his Creator the Pope. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 456 If the creator of the use had a fee simple in the land. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. xiv. 350 Just as little as the Voltaic battery is the animal body a creator of force.
b. One who ‘creates’ a dramatic character or role. (Cf. creation 5 b.)
1872Gentl. Mag. June 715 Her representation had always this want of dramatic propriety for those who had witnessed the original creator of the part.
c. One who ‘creates’ or designs a costume, etc. (see create v. 2 d, creation 5 c).
1901Westm. Gaz. 23 May 3/1 Everything seemed so absolutely simple, and yet so absolutely impossible to any other creator.
Hence creˈatoress = creatress.
1827Westm. Rev. VII. 331 note, Luonto-Luonot, Nature, the Creatoress, Kawe's wife. |