creationn.

Brit.

/krɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/kriˈeɪʃən/

Forms: Middle English creacioun, Middle English creacon, Middle English creacoun, Middle English creatioun, Middle English–1500s creacyon, Middle English–1600s creacion, Middle English– creation; Scottish pre-1700 creacione, pre-1700 creacioun, pre-1700 creatione, pre-1700 creationne, pre-1700 creatioun, pre-1700 creatioune, pre-1700 1700s– creation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French creation; Latin creātiōn-, creātiō.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman creation, creacion, creacioun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French creation (French création ) action or process of bringing into existence (13th cent. in Old French of God's creation of the world), action of establishing for the first time (14th cent.), appointment, investiture, or nomination to an ecclesiastical office, or to a knighthood, etc. (early 14th cent.), everything created (15th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin creātiōn-, creātiō action of begetting (children), election or appointment (of an official), in post-classical Latin also action or process of creating (4th cent.), creature (Vetus Latina) < creāt- , past participial stem of creāre create v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan creació (13th cent.), Spanish creación (14th cent.), Portuguese criação (9th cent.), Italian creazione (1308).In sense 1d after French création first dramatic representation of a character or role (1843). The usual word in Old English is gesceaft (see shaft n.¹).

a. Something created by divine or natural agency.

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c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 161 (MED) For crist makeþ þe creacions, And þis world fareþ as a fantasye.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 162 Thise..Rokkes blake..semen rather a foul confusioun Of werk than any fair creacioun Of swich a perfit wys god.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 114 (MED) Whenne nature bowys him to blaknes with ȝalownes, þanne ys þe attemprance good, and þis creacion be lykyng to þe.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xi. xxxii. 435 What a huge masse of the future creation God called heauen and earth.

1655 S. Gorton Saltmarsh Ep. Ded. sig. a Wherein righteousness dwells, as our Apostle witnesseth..is adorned with infinitely more relations, operations, and vertues then all the Creations in Heaven and Earth can set forth.

1706 H. Layton Search after Souls (new ed.) 120 Humane souls are New Creations made by God out of Nothing.

1777 J. Aikin Ess. on Applic. Nat. Hist. to Poetry 145 The vegetable and animal creations, the very earth, rivers and seas, are all on a scale and after a model so unlike those of our world.

1866 W. Urwick tr. H. Martensen Christian Dogmatics iii. 174 Every individual is a creation of God.

1896 R. Ward Rec. of Big Game 92 The White-tailed Gnu, or..Black Wildbeeste, is assuredly one of the most extravagant of nature's creations.

1954 P. Hastings in J. R. R. Tolkien Lett. (1995) 187 God has not used that device in any of the creations of which we have knowledge.

1974 D. Reese in Ebony Oct. 143/2 (caption) I believe in God and I believe God is very scientific in his creations.

2009 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 3 Nov. 15 As one of God's creations herself her true instinctive and natural nature is of love and compassion and always will be.

b. An original production of human intelligence, power, skill, or art; esp. a work of imagination.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > of human art or activity

artifice1600

production1603

creationa1616

artefact1644

product1650

artefac1906

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > creative design or product

findalOE

ideaa1586

conception1587

creationa1616

birth1625

brainchild1631

constructurea1652

notion1742

construction1796

baby1890

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 38 Or art thou but A Dagger of the Minde, a false Creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine?

1714 J. Gay Fan i. 10 Here shall the Pencil bid its Colours flow, And make a Miniature Creation grow.

1746 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare i. 80 The sportive creations of a fertil imagination.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 88 Fancy's thin creations.

1830 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk 12 May (1835) I. 130 There is a subjectivity of the persona, or dramatic character, as in all Shakspeare's great creations.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiv. 93 Lugdunum was a new creation of the Roman power.

1949 F. Towers Tea with Mr. Rochester (1952) 16 This house, so shabby and so beautiful, is in part her creation.

1966 H. Moore On Sculpt. 58 He will want his works to be creations, new in themselves, not merely feats of copying nor of memory.

1995 Times Mag. 28 Oct. 57/5 A boudin of wild boar was a delicious creation,..a very high-class sausage indeed.

c. A dress or other garment specially created by a fashion designer.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made by specific manufacturer > other

creation1855

couture1928

original1939

1864 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. May 45/2 We will now give you..the last creation, as they say here [sc. in France]—invention would be thought sufficiently grand in England.]

1855 J. J. Jarves Parisian Sights & French Princ. 2nd ser. 228 Diamonds and lace, flowers and plumes, embroidered coats and satin robes, all the luxurious and costly creations of past fashion.

1873 Young Englishwoman June 284/1 Gagelin has just launched out into the world of fashion his new creations for the season of travelling.

1898 Daily News 17 Sept. 6/2 A recent ‘creation’—to use the curious technical word—consists of dark blue repp with heliotrope velvet let in.

1921 13th Ann. Drapery Exhib. (advt.) Our creations are bought throughout the world, where the demand exists for furs which are correct.

1929 ‘J. Dashwood’ Three Daughters (1930) xvi Judy, radiant in a tiara and a creation of Rosalie's.

2002 Gardens Illustr. Sept. 22/1 These flowers are destined to adorn the creations of the world's leading haute couturiers.

d. The first dramatic representation of a character or role; a characterization or shaping of a dramatic part by a particular artist. Cf. create v. 2d.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character > first

creation1858

1858 A. de Barrera Mem. of Rachel II. vii. 120 Mademoiselle Rachel appeared in the part of Madame de Girardin's ‘Lady Tartuffe’... This proved one of her best creations in comedy, though she herself never fancied the róle.

1872 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 195 One of Mr. Irving's latest successes has been the ‘creation’ of Jingle in the version of ‘Pickwick’.

1881 Punch 17 Dec. 288/1 The character of Maximilian..was doubtless written expressly for Robson, and, therefore, as one of that actor's ‘creations’ carries with it a Robsonian tradition.

1905 Washington Post 12 Mar. 5/6 (advt.) The Greatest Success of His Career. A Distinctly Novel Stage Creation. Otis Skinner As the Gipsy Rover in the Picturesque Play, The Harvester.

2004 Times (Nexis) 15 May 3 ‘Dirty Den’ may be the greatest of the actor's creations.

a. The action or process of bringing something into existence from nothing by divine or natural agency; the fact of being so created.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun]

shaft888

makinglOE

creationa1393

faction1440

uprearing1551

operationc1616

essentiating1635

emanation1742

naturing1880

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 203 Tofore the creacion Of eny worldes stacion.

a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. xvii. f. 62 (MED) I was present at his first creation.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii^v Fro the creacion of the worlde vnto this tyme.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 37^v The earthe after the fyrst creation was then so fruictfull, that it neaded none, or very lytle rayne.

1643 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 37 The Angels..are the Sons of God by temporal Creation.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 556 Beasts, whom God on thir Creation-Day Created mute to all articulat sound.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvi. 154 As when a new Particle of Matter doth begin to exist..which had before no Being; and this we call Creation.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. v. 86 That mature State of Life, which was the End of his [sc. man's] Creation.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 201 What is His creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means?

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 399 The creation of a new lake, the engulphing of a city, or the raising of a new island.

1858 H. L. Mansel Bampton Lect. (ed. 4) ii. 35 We can think of creation only as a change in the condition of that which already exists.

1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought xiii. 536 In real life, there are no examples of pure creation.

1981 P. Davies Edge of Infinity (1983) viii. 161 The existence of a past edge to time implies that, in a very fundamental sense, the big bang represents the creation of the physical universe.

2001 Guardian 8 Nov. (Online section) 3/1 Virtual reality is really about the creation of fantasy worlds.

b. spec. Frequently with the and capital initial. The bringing into existence of the world or the universe; the beginning of the world as an event from which time can be thought to begin.

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the world > time > period > [noun] > beginning of time or the world

beginningc1175

creation1497

prime1616

1497 Cron. Eng. (de Worde) i. sig. aii/2 That doctours calle the werke of the creacon, the whyche was made afore ony daye or nyghte.

1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. Gi^v Alas god wherfore haste y^u created vs cursed be the creatour y^e creature and y^e houre also of the creacyon.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 212 They which haue flatly denyed the Creation, haue neuerthelater granted the Prouidence.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G3 From the creation to the generall doome.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H1 After the Creation was finished, it is sette downe vnto vs, that man was placed in the Garden to worke therein.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. §9 Could Noah then be ignorant of the Creation, and the fall of man?

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 370 As if all India was theirs by title from the Creation.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata 309 These Laws..were a Sum or an Abstract of those that were given by God to Adam at the Creation.

1786 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt II. xlviii. 351 Athor, or the night, in the opinion of the Egyptian priests, represented the darkness which enveloped the chaos before the creation.

1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xvi. 100 The account of the creation in Genesis.

1882 S. Cox in Expositor 4 197 The story of the creation told by Moses is simplicity and sobriety itself when compared with them.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 252 The artist, like the God of the creation, remains..above his handiwork.

1958 J. Wilson Lang. & Christian Belief v. 56 The Christian belief in the Creation, as expressed in the statement ‘God made the world’.

1990 UNESCO Courier (Nexis) 1 May 14 Direct allusions to the creation in the Qur'an must be considered primarily as ‘signs’ of God's omnipotence.

c. concrete. Everything so created; the whole world, the universe; creatures collectively.Cf. lords of (the) creation n. at lord n. and int. Phrases 1g.

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the world > the earth > [noun] > as God's creation

universityc1384

creation1601

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 84 Gods creation cannot be annihilated by any deuise of the creature.

1611 Bible (King James) Rom. viii. 22 For wee know that the whole creation groaneth.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Which in forty dayes swallowed almost mankinde, and the living creation.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 A Plague did on the dumb Creation rise.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 113 This vast Tract of Land..is a fruitful..Piece of God's Creation.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. iv The entire Creation was at peace with Man.

1789 W. Blake Cradle Song in Songs of Innocence All creation slept and smil'd.

1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlii. 466 The whole animal Creation has been decimated again and again.

1884 W. Besant Art of Fiction 11 There is nothing in the whole of creation more worthy of being studied and painted than the human face and form.

1931 Times 19 Dec. 13/4 Ancient legends point to the belief that out of darkness all creation emerged.

1995 D. Berlinski Tour of Calculus vii. 40 The biological world is filled with warm and annealing surfaces, swelling up, curved, amorphous, the whole of creation organized but chaotic.

a. The action of investing with a rank, title, status, or function; the fact of being so invested; an appointment to a position of status.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > [noun] > investing with a rank or title

creation1425

investiture1549

cincture of sword1587

investure1825

1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 3 Þe blode and armes ryalx make þe estate, and not only creation; for þe seid Thomas and Esmond weren of latter creation þanne Henri, erle of Lancastr' and sett above him in þe seid teste, for her blode and armes rialx.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 233 This Alisaunder graunted..plener remission in þe first day of his creacion.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 106 The kings yoonger sonnes be but gentlemen by birth (till they haue receiued creation of higher estate, to be either visconts, earles, or dukes).

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 152 The ordering of dubbings and creations of Knights or Esquires.

1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 93 That the LL. of the newe creacion may be brought into the House, eache by 2 other LL.

1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iv. iii. 52 A Baron must go after the ancientry of his Creation.

1711 Husbandmens Humble Petition (single sheet) Tax ev'ry Soul that Cheats the Nation, Tho' L——d by birth, or by Creation.

1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. vi. 325 This restless..People..required Decemvirs, and we consented to their Creation.

1773 Observ. State Poor 74 Inhabitation for three years, or three months, or three days..will be equally valid for the creation of a parishioner.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 520 The Tory party had always been strong among the peers. It..had been reinforced..by several fresh creations.

1880 F. V. Dickins tr. Chiushingura (new ed.) 159 They were noble ladies..who were peers of the Mikado's creation.

1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower (1956) iii. 44 He was a type..not unknown in the House of Lords, especially among recent creations.

1983 Listener 27 Jan. 22/2 The Norfolks of the present creation (established 1483 and still going strong) have certainly been a varied lot.

b. Cambridge University. Frequently with capital initial. A ceremony marking the full appointment of doctors and masters of arts. Now historical.The ceremony was held on Commencement Day. The professors in the various faculties (or other officials for some degrees) recited the names of those who had been admitted as doctors (doctors designate) during the past year and the senior proctor the names of those who had been admitted as masters of arts (inceptors). It was discontinued after 16 October 1926: see quot. 1928.

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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > special day or week > ceremonies

creation1788

1719 C. Middleton Full Acct. Proc. in University Cambr. against Dr. Bentley 4 Several Doctors in Divinity, named by mandate, were attending our Senate-house to receive the creation to their Degrees.]

1788 J. Beverley Acct. Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 63 The other Professors who have sons, make their Speeches and proceed to Creation.

1832 J. Romilly Diary 3 July in Cambridge Diary (1967) 18 Com[mencemen]t Tuesday. Went at 8 to see the Creation of M.A.s.

1839 J. Romilly Diary 2 July in Cambridge Diary (1967) 173 The greatest batch of D^rs time immemorial for Creation.

1860 Univ. Cambr., Method Proceed. Arts 26 The Inceptors in every year become complete Masters of Arts by creation on the commencement day.

1902 Student's Handbk. Cambridge 341 The day appointed for the..process known as ‘creation’ in the case of Masters and Doctors in the various faculties.

1928 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 102 The new Statutes have abolished the practice by which (i) Bachelors in Arts, Law, [etc.]..remained ‘Bachelors designate’ until the last week-day of December... (ii) Masters and Doctors only attained the full degree by ‘Creation’.

1935 D. A. Winstanley Unreformed Cambr. ii. 62 He was eligible..to be admitted as an inceptor in arts, but he did not become a complete or regent master until his ‘creation’ at the Commencement in the July following.

a. The action of making, producing, bringing into existence, or constituting for the first time or afresh by human agency; invention; causation, production.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of

conceit1576

creation1604

fiction1605

commentation1652

contrivance1699

conception1771

coining1858

society > law > rule of law > [noun] > bringing into legal existence

creation1769

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 129 This is the very coynage of your braine, This bodilesse creation extacie is very cunning in.

1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. ccvi. 438 As for Natural Poets, who are far beyond Artificial Chymists, their Creation of Fancies is by a Natural way, not an Artificial.

?1721 A. Godefroy Scheme for restoring Publick Credit §4 This New Company shall be..Debitor to the several Proprietors in the present stock of the South-Sea Company, in the full Amount of what the several Funds were at their Original Creation.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxxi. 205 The first money that returned from the second creation of actions in the Missisippi-scheme, in which he was an adventurer.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 420 The creation of estates tail.

1804 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Feb. in Writings (1984) 1144 A double or treble creation of food be produced, and its surplus go to nourish the now perishing births of Europe.

1841 R. W. Emerson Art in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 353 In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 216 Down these we swept..usually accompanied by an avalanche of our own creation.

1868 J. Bright Speeches Public Policy I. 290 The creation of that opinion which has made slavery hateful.

1909 Sci. Amer. 12 June 443/3 Germany spends nearly eighty times as much as Great Britain for the creation of an aerial navy.

1972 E. Longford Wellington II. xiv. 196 The creation of the Metropolitan Police force was in every sense the child of Peel's foresight and labour.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 52/1 This sonata's creation may have been shaped by the intimate setting for which it was intended.

b. The formation or flotation of a business company.

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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > formation of company

creation1898

1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 6/1 An Australian Brewery Creation.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 6/3 Engineering creations are becoming quite plentiful. This week end will witness the flotation of the old-established business of Jesse Ellis and Co.

1912 Times 22 Jan. 22/3 As might have been expected after the wild flotation of rubber companies in 1910, the additions in 1911 were comparatively few, while the year has served to disclose the barren prospects of a number of the 1910 creations.

1987 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 17 Feb. aa-1 The Henley Group Inc. this morning said it has agreed to sell three of its subsidiaries for $141 million cash... Henley has yet to report a net profit since its creation.

Phrases

U.S. colloquial. In various phrases or exclamations; frequently (with all) with the sense ‘everything’ or ‘anything’. to beat (also lick, whip) (all) creation: to surpass everything.

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1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xii. 331 He..gives his beaver a brush, and cocks it in the face of all creation.

1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing v. 56 But when in all creation any of 'em will be finished, I guess it would puzzle a Philadelphy lawyer to tell.

1839 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 5) xxix. 271 Well! if that don't beat creation!

1839 Yale Literary Mag. 4 363 He pulls like all creation, as the woman remarked when the horse ran away with her.

1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. xii. 230 Creation! how he looked.

1862 ‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines xiii. 237 Go to Wilmington and telegraph all creation.

1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House I. vi. 127 An English gentleman, who, Mr. Travis [i.e. an American] says, if he has money to spend, does whip creation.

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 148 Our luncheon tent's goin' to beat creation.

1917 H. T. Comstock Man thou Gavest 347 This out-of-door stuff costs like all creation.

1986 G. Keillor Lake Wobegon Days 193 She yelled, ‘What in the name of creation!’ and hit the floor.

Compounds

creation money n. now historical a regular payment made by the Crown to a peer from the time of investiture; cf. sense 3a.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > annual payment by crown to peer

creation money?1527

?1527 Acct. (P.R.O.: E 36/226) f. 59^v Receyved of Rauffe Fenvike for his creacion mony.

1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 454 The Dukes and Marquesses a greater yearly annuity or Creation money.

1703 J. Anstis Lett. to Peer 29 Having just mention'd the Creation-Money, or Annual-Fee, usually settled on this Honour, and at present in the Duke of Norfolk's Patent..I should be glad to know the Judgement of the Heralds.

1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. 436 The earl's creation money, twenty pounds, was a substitute for the third penny of the county..and the retention of this payment probably suggested the bestowal of creation money on those who were raised to the newer ranks of peerage.

1958 Eng. Hist. Rev. 73 250 The petition insisted..that Englishmen ennobled in Ireland, though they drew to the royal treasury ‘creation money’, were unjustly exempt from Irish imposts.

creation myth n. a myth describing or explaining the creation of the world.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of

creation story1860

creation myth1863

sun myth1865

solar myth1870

nature myth1871

just-so story1897

monomyth1929

FOAF1989

1863 J. W. Colenso Pentateuch & Bk. Joshua Critically Examined IV. xxiv. 251 We have seen instances of this connection already, in the expressions out of the Phœnician creation-myth.

1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xiv. 259 Creation myths are not as ‘primitive’ as some writers would have us suppose.

2003 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 9 192 The famous nyau ritual of the Chewa-speaking peoples is a symbolic re-enactment of the Chewa creation myth.

creation mythology n. a system of mythology concerned with the creation of the world.

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1877 S. Johnson Oriental Relig.: China iv. v. 929 This ante-causal existence, which should properly be extra causal and devoid of finite expression, is nevertheless in the creation-mythology clothed by imagination with the forms of personality.

1909 Amer. Anthropologist 11 48 It [sc. death] is an inherent part or element in southern California creation mythology.

2002 National Geographic Dec. 40/1 Canoe plants include various types of taro, from which the Hawaiian staple food, poi, is made and such a key plant that it is part of their creation mythology.

creation science n. chiefly U.S. interpretation or teaching of the subject matter of science which is based on biblical creationism.

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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of origin or development of life

epigenesis1653

intelligent design1816

vitalism1822

ovarism1857

panspermy1857

creationism1860

monadism1860

nomogeny1868

thaumatogeny1868

biogenesis1870

panspermism1870

biogeny1871

polygenesis1871

panspermatism1874

monism1880

ovism1892

neo-vitalism1895

creation science1970

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > creation science

creation science1970

1970 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 19 Dec. 4/1 These last objections were answered by Dr. Henry Morris of the Creation Science Research Center of San Diego.

1981 Nature 3 Dec. 389/1 By requiring equal time for what is called ‘creation-science’ with Darwinism, is the state of Arkansas violating the provision..that ensures the separation of religion and the state?

2005 Seed Oct.–Nov. 31/2 With their ‘creation science’ strategies struck down by the Supreme Court, anti-evolutionists..morphed into defenders of ‘intelligent design’.

creation scientist n. chiefly U.S. a proponent of creation science.

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1967 Idaho Free Press 8 Sept. 7/8 The Bible-Science Association..helps to promote and let people know what these outstanding, creation scientists are doing and discovering.

1981 Times 7 Dec. 24/1 Creation-scientists, drawing on the Book of Genesis, say that man did not evolve from any lower species.

2005 J. Schaefer in C. H. Badaracco Quoting God x. 220 Creation scientists contend that there is scientific evidence for the creation of the world within the last six thousand years.

creation story n. a story describing or explaining the creation of the world.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story with specific subject

human story1753

family history1780

snake story1826

birth story1837

creation story1860

nostos1910

success story1925

microhistory1969

plutography1985

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of

creation story1860

creation myth1863

sun myth1865

solar myth1870

nature myth1871

just-so story1897

monomyth1929

FOAF1989

1860 E. Dingle (title) Hints from the dawning; or the Creation story considered under the laws of light and motion.

1976 R. C. Stalnaker in T. Honderich & M. Burnyeat Philos. as it Is (1979) 454 We find it difficult to take this metaphysical myth any more seriously than the other less abstract creation stories told by our primitive ancestors.

2002 Indian Country Today 14 Aug. a4/1 What about Native peoples who..believe in their own cosmology and creation stories.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	creation
释义	creationn. Brit. /krɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /kriˈeɪʃən/ Forms: Middle English creacioun, Middle English creacon, Middle English creacoun, Middle English creatioun, Middle English–1500s creacyon, Middle English–1600s creacion, Middle English– creation; Scottish pre-1700 creacione, pre-1700 creacioun, pre-1700 creatione, pre-1700 creationne, pre-1700 creatioun, pre-1700 creatioune, pre-1700 1700s– creation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French creation; Latin creātiōn-, creātiō. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman creation, creacion, creacioun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French creation (French création ) action or process of bringing into existence (13th cent. in Old French of God's creation of the world), action of establishing for the first time (14th cent.), appointment, investiture, or nomination to an ecclesiastical office, or to a knighthood, etc. (early 14th cent.), everything created (15th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin creātiōn-, creātiō action of begetting (children), election or appointment (of an official), in post-classical Latin also action or process of creating (4th cent.), creature (Vetus Latina) < creāt- , past participial stem of creāre create v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan creació (13th cent.), Spanish creación (14th cent.), Portuguese criação (9th cent.), Italian creazione (1308).In sense 1d after French création first dramatic representation of a character or role (1843). The usual word in Old English is gesceaft (see shaft n.¹). 1. a. Something created by divine or natural agency. ΚΠ c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 161 (MED) For crist makeþ þe creacions, And þis world fareþ as a fantasye. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 162 Thise..Rokkes blake..semen rather a foul confusioun Of werk than any fair creacioun Of swich a perfit wys god. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 114 (MED) Whenne nature bowys him to blaknes with ȝalownes, þanne ys þe attemprance good, and þis creacion be lykyng to þe. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xi. xxxii. 435 What a huge masse of the future creation God called heauen and earth. 1655 S. Gorton Saltmarsh Ep. Ded. sig. a Wherein righteousness dwells, as our Apostle witnesseth..is adorned with infinitely more relations, operations, and vertues then all the Creations in Heaven and Earth can set forth. 1706 H. Layton Search after Souls (new ed.) 120 Humane souls are New Creations made by God out of Nothing. 1777 J. Aikin Ess. on Applic. Nat. Hist. to Poetry 145 The vegetable and animal creations, the very earth, rivers and seas, are all on a scale and after a model so unlike those of our world. 1866 W. Urwick tr. H. Martensen Christian Dogmatics iii. 174 Every individual is a creation of God. 1896 R. Ward Rec. of Big Game 92 The White-tailed Gnu, or..Black Wildbeeste, is assuredly one of the most extravagant of nature's creations. 1954 P. Hastings in J. R. R. Tolkien Lett. (1995) 187 God has not used that device in any of the creations of which we have knowledge. 1974 D. Reese in Ebony Oct. 143/2 (caption) I believe in God and I believe God is very scientific in his creations. 2009 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 3 Nov. 15 As one of God's creations herself her true instinctive and natural nature is of love and compassion and always will be. b. An original production of human intelligence, power, skill, or art; esp. a work of imagination. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > of human art or activity artifice1600 production1603 creationa1616 artefact1644 product1650 artefac1906 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > creative design or product findalOE ideaa1586 conception1587 creationa1616 birth1625 brainchild1631 constructurea1652 notion1742 construction1796 baby1890 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 38 Or art thou but A Dagger of the Minde, a false Creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine? View more context for this quotation 1714 J. Gay Fan i. 10 Here shall the Pencil bid its Colours flow, And make a Miniature Creation grow. 1746 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare i. 80 The sportive creations of a fertil imagination. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 88 Fancy's thin creations. 1830 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk 12 May (1835) I. 130 There is a subjectivity of the persona, or dramatic character, as in all Shakspeare's great creations. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiv. 93 Lugdunum was a new creation of the Roman power. 1949 F. Towers Tea with Mr. Rochester (1952) 16 This house, so shabby and so beautiful, is in part her creation. 1966 H. Moore On Sculpt. 58 He will want his works to be creations, new in themselves, not merely feats of copying nor of memory. 1995 Times Mag. 28 Oct. 57/5 A boudin of wild boar was a delicious creation,..a very high-class sausage indeed. c. A dress or other garment specially created by a fashion designer. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made by specific manufacturer > other creation1855 couture1928 original1939 1864 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. May 45/2 We will now give you..the last creation, as they say here [sc. in France]—invention would be thought sufficiently grand in England.] 1855 J. J. Jarves Parisian Sights & French Princ. 2nd ser. 228 Diamonds and lace, flowers and plumes, embroidered coats and satin robes, all the luxurious and costly creations of past fashion. 1873 Young Englishwoman June 284/1 Gagelin has just launched out into the world of fashion his new creations for the season of travelling. 1898 Daily News 17 Sept. 6/2 A recent ‘creation’—to use the curious technical word—consists of dark blue repp with heliotrope velvet let in. 1921 13th Ann. Drapery Exhib. (advt.) Our creations are bought throughout the world, where the demand exists for furs which are correct. 1929 ‘J. Dashwood’ Three Daughters (1930) xvi Judy, radiant in a tiara and a creation of Rosalie's. 2002 Gardens Illustr. Sept. 22/1 These flowers are destined to adorn the creations of the world's leading haute couturiers. d. The first dramatic representation of a character or role; a characterization or shaping of a dramatic part by a particular artist. Cf. create v. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character > first creation1858 1858 A. de Barrera Mem. of Rachel II. vii. 120 Mademoiselle Rachel appeared in the part of Madame de Girardin's ‘Lady Tartuffe’... This proved one of her best creations in comedy, though she herself never fancied the róle. 1872 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 195 One of Mr. Irving's latest successes has been the ‘creation’ of Jingle in the version of ‘Pickwick’. 1881 Punch 17 Dec. 288/1 The character of Maximilian..was doubtless written expressly for Robson, and, therefore, as one of that actor's ‘creations’ carries with it a Robsonian tradition. 1905 Washington Post 12 Mar. 5/6 (advt.) The Greatest Success of His Career. A Distinctly Novel Stage Creation. Otis Skinner As the Gipsy Rover in the Picturesque Play, The Harvester. 2004 Times (Nexis) 15 May 3 ‘Dirty Den’ may be the greatest of the actor's creations. 2. a. The action or process of bringing something into existence from nothing by divine or natural agency; the fact of being so created. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] shaft888 makinglOE creationa1393 faction1440 uprearing1551 operationc1616 essentiating1635 emanation1742 naturing1880 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 203 Tofore the creacion Of eny worldes stacion. a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. xvii. f. 62 (MED) I was present at his first creation. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii^v Fro the creacion of the worlde vnto this tyme. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 37^v The earthe after the fyrst creation was then so fruictfull, that it neaded none, or very lytle rayne. 1643 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 37 The Angels..are the Sons of God by temporal Creation. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 556 Beasts, whom God on thir Creation-Day Created mute to all articulat sound. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvi. 154 As when a new Particle of Matter doth begin to exist..which had before no Being; and this we call Creation. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. v. 86 That mature State of Life, which was the End of his [sc. man's] Creation. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 201 What is His creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means? 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 399 The creation of a new lake, the engulphing of a city, or the raising of a new island. 1858 H. L. Mansel Bampton Lect. (ed. 4) ii. 35 We can think of creation only as a change in the condition of that which already exists. 1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought xiii. 536 In real life, there are no examples of pure creation. 1981 P. Davies Edge of Infinity (1983) viii. 161 The existence of a past edge to time implies that, in a very fundamental sense, the big bang represents the creation of the physical universe. 2001 Guardian 8 Nov. (Online section) 3/1 Virtual reality is really about the creation of fantasy worlds. b. spec. Frequently with the and capital initial. The bringing into existence of the world or the universe; the beginning of the world as an event from which time can be thought to begin. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > beginning of time or the world beginningc1175 creation1497 prime1616 1497 Cron. Eng. (de Worde) i. sig. aii/2 That doctours calle the werke of the creacon, the whyche was made afore ony daye or nyghte. 1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. Gi^v Alas god wherfore haste y^u created vs cursed be the creatour y^e creature and y^e houre also of the creacyon. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 212 They which haue flatly denyed the Creation, haue neuerthelater granted the Prouidence. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G3 From the creation to the generall doome. View more context for this quotation 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H1 After the Creation was finished, it is sette downe vnto vs, that man was placed in the Garden to worke therein. View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. §9 Could Noah then be ignorant of the Creation, and the fall of man? 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 370 As if all India was theirs by title from the Creation. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata 309 These Laws..were a Sum or an Abstract of those that were given by God to Adam at the Creation. 1786 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt II. xlviii. 351 Athor, or the night, in the opinion of the Egyptian priests, represented the darkness which enveloped the chaos before the creation. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xvi. 100 The account of the creation in Genesis. 1882 S. Cox in Expositor 4 197 The story of the creation told by Moses is simplicity and sobriety itself when compared with them. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 252 The artist, like the God of the creation, remains..above his handiwork. 1958 J. Wilson Lang. & Christian Belief v. 56 The Christian belief in the Creation, as expressed in the statement ‘God made the world’. 1990 UNESCO Courier (Nexis) 1 May 14 Direct allusions to the creation in the Qur'an must be considered primarily as ‘signs’ of God's omnipotence. c. concrete. Everything so created; the whole world, the universe; creatures collectively.Cf. lords of (the) creation n. at lord n. and int. Phrases 1g. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] > as God's creation universityc1384 creation1601 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 84 Gods creation cannot be annihilated by any deuise of the creature. 1611 Bible (King James) Rom. viii. 22 For wee know that the whole creation groaneth. View more context for this quotation 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Which in forty dayes swallowed almost mankinde, and the living creation. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 A Plague did on the dumb Creation rise. View more context for this quotation 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 113 This vast Tract of Land..is a fruitful..Piece of God's Creation. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. iv The entire Creation was at peace with Man. 1789 W. Blake Cradle Song in Songs of Innocence All creation slept and smil'd. 1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlii. 466 The whole animal Creation has been decimated again and again. 1884 W. Besant Art of Fiction 11 There is nothing in the whole of creation more worthy of being studied and painted than the human face and form. 1931 Times 19 Dec. 13/4 Ancient legends point to the belief that out of darkness all creation emerged. 1995 D. Berlinski Tour of Calculus vii. 40 The biological world is filled with warm and annealing surfaces, swelling up, curved, amorphous, the whole of creation organized but chaotic. 3. a. The action of investing with a rank, title, status, or function; the fact of being so invested; an appointment to a position of status. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > [noun] > investing with a rank or title creation1425 investiture1549 cincture of sword1587 investure1825 1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 3 Þe blode and armes ryalx make þe estate, and not only creation; for þe seid Thomas and Esmond weren of latter creation þanne Henri, erle of Lancastr' and sett above him in þe seid teste, for her blode and armes rialx. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 233 This Alisaunder graunted..plener remission in þe first day of his creacion. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 106 The kings yoonger sonnes be but gentlemen by birth (till they haue receiued creation of higher estate, to be either visconts, earles, or dukes). 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 152 The ordering of dubbings and creations of Knights or Esquires. 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 93 That the LL. of the newe creacion may be brought into the House, eache by 2 other LL. 1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iv. iii. 52 A Baron must go after the ancientry of his Creation. 1711 Husbandmens Humble Petition (single sheet) Tax ev'ry Soul that Cheats the Nation, Tho' L——d by birth, or by Creation. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. vi. 325 This restless..People..required Decemvirs, and we consented to their Creation. 1773 Observ. State Poor 74 Inhabitation for three years, or three months, or three days..will be equally valid for the creation of a parishioner. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 520 The Tory party had always been strong among the peers. It..had been reinforced..by several fresh creations. 1880 F. V. Dickins tr. Chiushingura (new ed.) 159 They were noble ladies..who were peers of the Mikado's creation. 1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower (1956) iii. 44 He was a type..not unknown in the House of Lords, especially among recent creations. 1983 Listener 27 Jan. 22/2 The Norfolks of the present creation (established 1483 and still going strong) have certainly been a varied lot. b. Cambridge University. Frequently with capital initial. A ceremony marking the full appointment of doctors and masters of arts. Now historical.The ceremony was held on Commencement Day. The professors in the various faculties (or other officials for some degrees) recited the names of those who had been admitted as doctors (doctors designate) during the past year and the senior proctor the names of those who had been admitted as masters of arts (inceptors). It was discontinued after 16 October 1926: see quot. 1928. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > special day or week > ceremonies creation1788 1719 C. Middleton Full Acct. Proc. in University Cambr. against Dr. Bentley 4 Several Doctors in Divinity, named by mandate, were attending our Senate-house to receive the creation to their Degrees.] 1788 J. Beverley Acct. Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 63 The other Professors who have sons, make their Speeches and proceed to Creation. 1832 J. Romilly Diary 3 July in Cambridge Diary (1967) 18 Com[mencemen]t Tuesday. Went at 8 to see the Creation of M.A.s. 1839 J. Romilly Diary 2 July in Cambridge Diary (1967) 173 The greatest batch of D^rs time immemorial for Creation. 1860 Univ. Cambr., Method Proceed. Arts 26 The Inceptors in every year become complete Masters of Arts by creation on the commencement day. 1902 Student's Handbk. Cambridge 341 The day appointed for the..process known as ‘creation’ in the case of Masters and Doctors in the various faculties. 1928 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 102 The new Statutes have abolished the practice by which (i) Bachelors in Arts, Law, [etc.]..remained ‘Bachelors designate’ until the last week-day of December... (ii) Masters and Doctors only attained the full degree by ‘Creation’. 1935 D. A. Winstanley Unreformed Cambr. ii. 62 He was eligible..to be admitted as an inceptor in arts, but he did not become a complete or regent master until his ‘creation’ at the Commencement in the July following. 4. a. The action of making, producing, bringing into existence, or constituting for the first time or afresh by human agency; invention; causation, production. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of conceit1576 creation1604 fiction1605 commentation1652 contrivance1699 conception1771 coining1858 society > law > rule of law > [noun] > bringing into legal existence creation1769 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 129 This is the very coynage of your braine, This bodilesse creation extacie is very cunning in. 1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. ccvi. 438 As for Natural Poets, who are far beyond Artificial Chymists, their Creation of Fancies is by a Natural way, not an Artificial. ?1721 A. Godefroy Scheme for restoring Publick Credit §4 This New Company shall be..Debitor to the several Proprietors in the present stock of the South-Sea Company, in the full Amount of what the several Funds were at their Original Creation. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxxi. 205 The first money that returned from the second creation of actions in the Missisippi-scheme, in which he was an adventurer. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 420 The creation of estates tail. 1804 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Feb. in Writings (1984) 1144 A double or treble creation of food be produced, and its surplus go to nourish the now perishing births of Europe. 1841 R. W. Emerson Art in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 353 In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 216 Down these we swept..usually accompanied by an avalanche of our own creation. 1868 J. Bright Speeches Public Policy I. 290 The creation of that opinion which has made slavery hateful. 1909 Sci. Amer. 12 June 443/3 Germany spends nearly eighty times as much as Great Britain for the creation of an aerial navy. 1972 E. Longford Wellington II. xiv. 196 The creation of the Metropolitan Police force was in every sense the child of Peel's foresight and labour. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 52/1 This sonata's creation may have been shaped by the intimate setting for which it was intended. b. The formation or flotation of a business company. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > formation of company creation1898 1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 6/1 An Australian Brewery Creation. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 6/3 Engineering creations are becoming quite plentiful. This week end will witness the flotation of the old-established business of Jesse Ellis and Co. 1912 Times 22 Jan. 22/3 As might have been expected after the wild flotation of rubber companies in 1910, the additions in 1911 were comparatively few, while the year has served to disclose the barren prospects of a number of the 1910 creations. 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 17 Feb. aa-1 The Henley Group Inc. this morning said it has agreed to sell three of its subsidiaries for $141 million cash... Henley has yet to report a net profit since its creation. Phrases U.S. colloquial. In various phrases or exclamations; frequently (with all) with the sense ‘everything’ or ‘anything’. to beat (also lick, whip) (all) creation: to surpass everything. ΚΠ 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xii. 331 He..gives his beaver a brush, and cocks it in the face of all creation. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing v. 56 But when in all creation any of 'em will be finished, I guess it would puzzle a Philadelphy lawyer to tell. 1839 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 5) xxix. 271 Well! if that don't beat creation! 1839 Yale Literary Mag. 4 363 He pulls like all creation, as the woman remarked when the horse ran away with her. 1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. xii. 230 Creation! how he looked. 1862 ‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines xiii. 237 Go to Wilmington and telegraph all creation. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House I. vi. 127 An English gentleman, who, Mr. Travis [i.e. an American] says, if he has money to spend, does whip creation. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 148 Our luncheon tent's goin' to beat creation. 1917 H. T. Comstock Man thou Gavest 347 This out-of-door stuff costs like all creation. 1986 G. Keillor Lake Wobegon Days 193 She yelled, ‘What in the name of creation!’ and hit the floor. Compounds creation money n. now historical a regular payment made by the Crown to a peer from the time of investiture; cf. sense 3a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > annual payment by crown to peer creation money?1527 ?1527 Acct. (P.R.O.: E 36/226) f. 59^v Receyved of Rauffe Fenvike for his creacion mony. 1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 454 The Dukes and Marquesses a greater yearly annuity or Creation money. 1703 J. Anstis Lett. to Peer 29 Having just mention'd the Creation-Money, or Annual-Fee, usually settled on this Honour, and at present in the Duke of Norfolk's Patent..I should be glad to know the Judgement of the Heralds. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. 436 The earl's creation money, twenty pounds, was a substitute for the third penny of the county..and the retention of this payment probably suggested the bestowal of creation money on those who were raised to the newer ranks of peerage. 1958 Eng. Hist. Rev. 73 250 The petition insisted..that Englishmen ennobled in Ireland, though they drew to the royal treasury ‘creation money’, were unjustly exempt from Irish imposts. creation myth n. a myth describing or explaining the creation of the world. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of creation story1860 creation myth1863 sun myth1865 solar myth1870 nature myth1871 just-so story1897 monomyth1929 FOAF1989 1863 J. W. Colenso Pentateuch & Bk. Joshua Critically Examined IV. xxiv. 251 We have seen instances of this connection already, in the expressions out of the Phœnician creation-myth. 1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xiv. 259 Creation myths are not as ‘primitive’ as some writers would have us suppose. 2003 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 9 192 The famous nyau ritual of the Chewa-speaking peoples is a symbolic re-enactment of the Chewa creation myth. creation mythology n. a system of mythology concerned with the creation of the world. ΚΠ 1877 S. Johnson Oriental Relig.: China iv. v. 929 This ante-causal existence, which should properly be extra causal and devoid of finite expression, is nevertheless in the creation-mythology clothed by imagination with the forms of personality. 1909 Amer. Anthropologist 11 48 It [sc. death] is an inherent part or element in southern California creation mythology. 2002 National Geographic Dec. 40/1 Canoe plants include various types of taro, from which the Hawaiian staple food, poi, is made and such a key plant that it is part of their creation mythology. creation science n. chiefly U.S. interpretation or teaching of the subject matter of science which is based on biblical creationism. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of origin or development of life epigenesis1653 intelligent design1816 vitalism1822 ovarism1857 panspermy1857 creationism1860 monadism1860 nomogeny1868 thaumatogeny1868 biogenesis1870 panspermism1870 biogeny1871 polygenesis1871 panspermatism1874 monism1880 ovism1892 neo-vitalism1895 creation science1970 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > creation science creation science1970 1970 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 19 Dec. 4/1 These last objections were answered by Dr. Henry Morris of the Creation Science Research Center of San Diego. 1981 Nature 3 Dec. 389/1 By requiring equal time for what is called ‘creation-science’ with Darwinism, is the state of Arkansas violating the provision..that ensures the separation of religion and the state? 2005 Seed Oct.–Nov. 31/2 With their ‘creation science’ strategies struck down by the Supreme Court, anti-evolutionists..morphed into defenders of ‘intelligent design’. creation scientist n. chiefly U.S. a proponent of creation science. ΚΠ 1967 Idaho Free Press 8 Sept. 7/8 The Bible-Science Association..helps to promote and let people know what these outstanding, creation scientists are doing and discovering. 1981 Times 7 Dec. 24/1 Creation-scientists, drawing on the Book of Genesis, say that man did not evolve from any lower species. 2005 J. Schaefer in C. H. Badaracco Quoting God x. 220 Creation scientists contend that there is scientific evidence for the creation of the world within the last six thousand years. creation story n. a story describing or explaining the creation of the world. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story with specific subject human story1753 family history1780 snake story1826 birth story1837 creation story1860 nostos1910 success story1925 microhistory1969 plutography1985 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of creation story1860 creation myth1863 sun myth1865 solar myth1870 nature myth1871 just-so story1897 monomyth1929 FOAF1989 1860 E. Dingle (title) Hints from the dawning; or the Creation story considered under the laws of light and motion. 1976 R. C. Stalnaker in T. Honderich & M. Burnyeat Philos. as it Is (1979) 454 We find it difficult to take this metaphysical myth any more seriously than the other less abstract creation stories told by our primitive ancestors. 2002 Indian Country Today 14 Aug. a4/1 What about Native peoples who..believe in their own cosmology and creation stories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1390
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