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单词 creature
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creaturen.

Brit. /ˈkriːtʃə/, U.S. /ˈkritʃər/
Forms: Middle English crature, Middle English creater, Middle English creator, Middle English creatoure, Middle English criatur, Middle English criature, Middle English cryatour, Middle English cryatur, Middle English cryature, Middle English–1500s creatour, Middle English–1500s creatur, Middle English–1600s creture, Middle English– creature, 1500s (1700s nonstandard) cretur, 1600s crytur (nonstandard), 1700s creeter (nonstandard); English regional 1800s crettur (Northamptonshire), 1800s creytur (Devon), 1800s– craiter (Lancashire), 1800s– crater, 1800s– creatur (Lincolnshire), 1800s– creetur (Leicestershire), 1800s– cretur (Cornwall); U.S. regional 1700s–1800s cretur, 1800s creatoore, 1800s creatur', 1800s creeter, 1800s– creetur, 1900s– craythur, 1900s– creater, 1900s– creetuh, 1900s– crutter; Scottish pre-1700 createure, pre-1700 creator, pre-1700 creatour, pre-1700 creatoure, pre-1700 creatowr, pre-1700 creatuire, pre-1700 cretor, pre-1700 creture, pre-1700 1700s– creature, pre-1700 1800s– creatur, 1800s cratur', 1800s creatur', 1800s creetur, 1800s– craeter, 1800s– craetur, 1800s– craiter, 1800s– craitur, 1800s– crater, 1800s– cratur, 1800s– crayter, 1800s– cretur, 1900s– creyter, 1900s– kreiter; also Irish English 1800s crathur, 1800s craythur, 1800s creathur, 1800s– cratur, 1900s– craither, 1900s– crator, 1900s– crature, 1900s– crayther. See also critter n.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French creature.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman creatur, Anglo-Norman and Old French criature, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French creature (French créature ) human being, any created thing or being (11th cent.), the created universe, creation (12th cent.), someone who owes his position to the favour of someone else (1558; in this sense probably after Italian creatura (14th cent.)) < post-classical Latin creatura anything created, the created universe, creation (Vetus Latina, Vulgate) < classical Latin creāt- , past participial stem of creāre create v. + -ūra -ure suffix1. Compare Old Occitan creatura, Catalan creatura (14th cent.), Spanish criatura, †creatura (c1200), Portuguese criatura, †creatura (13th cent.), Italian creatura (a1250).The stem vowel appears to have shown some variation in early modern English, but generally to have shown the reflex of Middle English open ē ; the different developments of this sound in different regional varieties of English largely account for the variation in the stem vowel which is found subsequently. (There is also very limited evidence for a trisyllabic pronunciation in early modern English, on the same pattern as creation n.) critter n. shows a variant with shortening of the stem vowel after raising to //. The realization of the second syllable varied in Middle English and early modern English according to whether this syllable showed secondary stress; pronunciations of the type /ˈkriːtʃə/ ultimately reflect pronunciations with secondary stress, while pronunciations of the type /ˈkriːtə/ ultimately reflect pronunciations without such secondary stress. Compare forms at nature n., pasture n., etc. The corresponding word in Old English is gesceaft (see shaft n.1), although the more usual word (with more general application) is wiht wight n.
1.
a. A created thing or being; a product of creative action; a creation.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created
creaturec1300
making1340
feature1483
facturea1500
sublunar1613
sublunary1625
subcelestial1652
c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 61 (MED) Jhesu Crist..On me, þi schap, nouȝ have merci..Þi creature [Auch. creatour] al so was i.
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 626 (MED) Þe Cros is a cold Creatour [rhymes figour, stour, flour].
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 89 (MED) He clepeth god the ferste cause..Of which that every creature Hath his beinge and his nature.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 417 (MED) He fordestend tuin creature [Fairf. creatours] to serue him in þat hali ture.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 5472 (MED) Yhit sal Godes creatures sere Accuse þam..Als þe son and þe mone and þe sterns, And þe elementes.
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) 2 Cor. v. 17 Yf eny man be in Christ, he is a newe creature.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxviiiv These thy gyftes, and creatures of bread and wyne.
1555 J. Ponet Apologie ii. p. xxi Mariadge is a creature of god, that I am suer yow can not denye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. i. 120 Which fierce fire, and Iron extends, Creatures of note for mercy, lacking vses. View more context for this quotation
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. vii. 121 Light was one of the first Creatures.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum Pref. 3 Affirming the most High and Sacred Order of Kings..to be a meer human Creature.
1783 W. Cowper Let. 15 Dec. (1981) II. 189 The first boat or canoe that was ever formed..was a more perfect creature in its kind, than a balloon at present.
1856 S. Winkworth Life Tauler in Tauler's Serm. (1857) xxvii. 395 Dress, jewels..a pleasant abode, and other transitory creatures.
1878 J. D. Hooker & J. Ball Jrnl. Tour Marocco 274 The gentian and saxifrage..and the other bright creatures that haunt the mountain tops.
1923 J. W. Harvey tr. R. Otto Idea of Holy xx. 175 The abyss between creature and Creator.., sin and holiness, is..increased by that deeper knowledge that comes from the Gospel of Christ.
1985 Daily Tel. 5 June 14/3 Are we then to suppose that the creature is kinder and wiser than the creator?
b. The created universe; creation. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > [noun]
kindlOE
worldc1175
framea1325
creaturec1384
universityc1450
engine?1510
universal1569
universality1577
mass1587
universe1589
all1598
cosmosie1600
macrocosm1602
existence1610
system1610
megacosm1617
cosmos1650
materialism1817
world-all1847
panarchy1848
multiverse1895
metaverse1994
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. iii. 5 So alle thinges lasten fro the bigynnynge of creature [L. creaturae].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 328 (MED) For-þi es godd, als sais scripture, Nan elder þan his creature.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 480 Sithen the fadris dieden alle thingis lasten fro the bigynnyng of creature.
1533 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Pet. iii. 4 Euery thinge contynueth as it was from the begynninge of ye creature.
1611 Bible (King James) Rom. viii. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sonnes of God. View more context for this quotation
c. [After 1 Timothy 4:4 (‘every creature of God is good’).] Frequently in good creature. A material comfort; something which promotes well-being, esp. food. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > sustenance or nourishment
foodOE
fosterc1000
fodnethOE
flittinga1225
livenotha1225
nourishingc1300
sustenancec1300
livelihoodc1325
nurture1340
fosteringc1386
livingc1405
nouriturea1425
nutriment?a1425
nutrition?a1425
lifehood1440
reliefa1450
nourishmentc1450
nurshingc1450
sustentationc1450
nutrimentc1485
alimenta1500
sustainmenta1500
bielda1522
creature1540
suck1584
mantiniment1588
fosterment1593
the three M's1938
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > material comfort(s)
ease1393
creature1540
creature comforts1641
comfortable1650
comfort1659
convenience1673
conveniency1712
home comfort1797
comforter1837
1540 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles Easter tyll Aduent f. xxxiij For as testifyeth saynt Paul in hys fyrst epistle to Timothie, gods creatures as meate, drynke, corne, and such other thynges be sanctifyed by the worde of God, and by prayer.
1607 Bp. J. Hall Holy Observ. 30 Those that come to their meat as to a medicine..shalbe sure not to ioy too much in the creature.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. ix. 73 Greedy Gourmands, that cannot moderately use the good creatures of God.
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man viii. §12. 187 Waste..of the good creatures of God.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 170 Tea, snuff, and many other useful creatures.
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 107 The good creature tobacco.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 472/2 We were put to it to reconcile the phrase ‘good creatures’, upon which the blessing rested, with the fare set before us.
1888 Times 27 Nov. 9/5 He will not allow that every form of alcohol is pernicious... For him it is one of God's good creatures, granted for use and pleasure.
d. humorous. Usually with the. Alcoholic drink, esp. whisky. Now chiefly Scottish and Irish English, esp. in form cratur.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun]
usquebaugh1581
creature1638
corn-brandy1704
whisky1715
usque1728
spunkiea1796
skreigh1813
the stuff1828
snake poison1842
tanglefoot1860
whisky-straight1864
oil1869
Auld Kirk1884
snake juice1890
screech1902
scat1914
pinch bottle1916
screecham1923
juice1932
malt1967
?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Eviiv The creature [i.e. wine] of proper kinde, Was good though we offenden therewithall.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 302 Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well vs'd. View more context for this quotation]
1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. Kiij The moderate use of the Creature, and sparing Dyet, which is very little practised.
1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iii. 26 My Master took too much of the Creature last night.
a1695 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 298 They would..tiple and smoake till they were over-taken with the creature.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xiii. 73 The German..never went to bed without a full dose of the creature.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. vii. ii. 111 He seems to like a bit of the good cretur as well as other folks.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 386 His..followers..take a little ‘crathur’.
1888 Standard 14 Aug. 2 Says he, ‘Maggie, have a drop of the Cratur.’
1950 Chambers's Jrnl. 214/1 ‘Maybe he'd like a cup of tea.’.. ‘You might put a drop of the creature in it.’
2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 May 15 They reached the cairn and eyes brightened, as men thought of rest and a wee drop of the cratur.
2. A human being; a person, an individual.
a. With modifying word indicating the type of person, and esp. expressing admiration, affection, compassion, or commiseration.
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the world > people > person > [noun]
hadc900
lifesmaneOE
maneOE
world-maneOE
ghostOE
wyeOE
lifeOE
son of manOE
wightc1175
soulc1180
earthmanc1225
foodc1225
person?c1225
creaturec1300
bodyc1325
beera1382
poppetc1390
flippera1400
wat1399
corsec1400
mortal?a1425
deadly?c1450
hec1450
personagec1485
wretcha1500
human1509
mundane1509
member1525
worma1556
homo1561
piece of flesh1567
sconce1567
squirrel?1567
fellow creature1572
Adamite1581
bloat herringa1586
earthling1593
mother's child1594
stuff1598
a piece of flesh1600
wagtail1607
bosom1608
fragment1609
boots1623
tick1631
worthy1649
earthlies1651
snap1653
pippin1665
being1666
personal1678
personality1678
sooterkin1680
party1686
worldling1687
human being1694
water-wagtail1694
noddle1705
human subject1712
piece of work1713
somebody1724
terrestrial1726
anybody1733
individual1742
character1773
cuss1775
jig1781
thingy1787
bod1788
curse1790
his nabs1790
article1796
Earthite1814
critter1815
potato1815
personeityc1816
nibs1821
somebody1826
tellurian1828
case1832
tangata1840
prawn1845
nigger1848
nut1856
Snooks1860
mug1865
outfit1867
to deliver the goods1870
hairpin1879
baby1880
possum1894
hot tamale1895
babe1900
jobbie1902
virile1903
cup of tea1908
skin1914
pisser1918
number1919
job1927
apple1928
mush1936
face1944
jong1956
naked ape1965
oke1970
punter1975
c1300 St. Margarete (Harl.) l. 170 in O. Cockayne Seinte Marherete (1866) 29 (MED) Y ne leoue hit noȝt þat his miȝtes were so stronge, Eni so holi creatoure in his wombe afonge.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. l. 119 A ful comely creature treuth she hiȝte.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 638 And hom she gooth a sorweful creature.
1425 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1425/3/25 That the juge..gar a lell..advocayt for sic folk to folow sic lell, treu pur creaturis causis.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 3957 Hym thouht she was so faire a creature.
a1500 (c1448) in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 102 (MED) We..in relevement of the said pore creatures..hertly praye you that ye wil..have theym in..faver.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1309/2 No doubt our lady was through the goodnes of God a good & a gratious creature.
1586 R. Langdale Will in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1891) 11 417 To Barbarey her doughter..beinge a lame creatur.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 180 The world has not a sweeter creature . View more context for this quotation
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. G4 Your Worships Charity to a poore Crytur welly starv'd.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 113. ⁋3 A beautiful Creature in a Widow's Habit sat in Court.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 210 I was the most disconsolate Creature alive.
1783 H. L. Thrale Let. 30 Aug. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. 265 The foreigners only get a notion of England's being unwholesome by seeing such consumptive looking creatures come out of it.
1798 J. S. Murray Gleaner III. 37 You are a charming creature, it must be confessed.
1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 22 Nov. in Captain's Wife (1993) 137 The hills were covered with groups of houseless creatures, sitting round the fires in awful expectation of a mighty visitation [sc. another earthquake].
1846 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. vi. 186 However, the dear creatures did what I asked them.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxii. 39 The best creature in the world.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 299 A pathetic, futile, broken creature.
1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge i. 2 Long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain i. iii. 32 Jaysus hon, around here they'd turn the poor crator to dust so they would.
2007 Toronto Star (Nexis) 1 Nov. e04 ‘Who is this ravishing creature?’ he asked, kissing my daughter's hand.
b. Without qualification. Cf. fellow creature n.Frequently with determiner forming combinations corresponding to pronouns based on body (as anybody, everybody, nobody, etc.): cf. body n. 11.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt
thingOE
cat?c1225
geggea1300
fox-whelpc1320
creaturea1325
whelp1338
scoutc1380
turnbroach14..
foumart1508
shit1508
get?a1513
strummel?a1513
scofting?1518
pismirea1535
clinchpoop1555
rag1566
huddle and twang1578
whipster1590
slop1599
shullocka1603
tailor1607
turnspit1607
fitchewa1616
bulchin1617
trundle-taila1626
tick1631
louse1633
fart1669
insect1684
mully-grub-gurgeon1746
grub-worm1752
rass1790
foutre1794
blister1806
snot1809
skin1825
scurf1851
scut1873
Siwash1882
stiff1882
bleeder1887
blighter1896
sugar1916
vuilgoed1924
klunk1942
fart sack1943
fart-arse1946
jerkwad1980
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1917 (MED) Þat was on of þe creatures þat euere in eorþe was, Þat mest loue oure lord cudde.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xvi. 15 Ȝe goynge in to al the world, preche the gospel to ech creature.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 6938 Creature non wiþ hem was, Bot þe trew Perdicas.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 364 (MED) Euery cristene creature shulde be kynde til other.
1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §32. m. 19 Your seid suppliaunt is as..repentant as any creature may be.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxii. 99 He was sore abasshed when he coulde fynde no creature.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 154 I shall dispaire, there is no creature loues me. View more context for this quotation
1680 Don Tomazo 138 Most Fair and Dear to me of all your Sex Whose Charms no Creature is able to resist.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 191. ⁋4 Scarcely a creature would come near them.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. iii. 24 She was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time. View more context for this quotation
1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. 44 No creature was ever more solemn, more earnest,..than the university-educated young female of the eighties.
a1946 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1950) i. 5 No creature at this moment knows or is concerned with my whereabouts, my time of day, my doings.
1979 M. Matshoba Call me not Man 67 During her pregnancy he had lived for nothing else but pampering his ‘ill madam’.., no other creature in trousers giving her a second glance.
c. A reprehensible or despicable person.Originally with modifying word, but later also used alone.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1707 Þe cait[if]este creatour [a1500 Trin. Dublin creatur] þat cried was euire.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxiii. 103 A more fouler and hydeous creature was neuer sene.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. iii. 17 And from the commonst creature plucke a gloue. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 1 Hence: home you idle Creatures . View more context for this quotation
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 410. ⁋1 Decent Dresses being often affected by the Creatures of the Town.
1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 92 The Creature's at his dirty work again.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 194. ⁋5 To lose his time in attending to the creatures on the stage.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 475 The creatures who govern at Cadiz appear to feel no such interest.
1837 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 3) I. i. 1 To make sinful creatures holy.
1888 M. Morris Claverhouse ix. 154 Though the Duke was a weak creature, his position was strong.
1912 J. Stephens Charwoman's Daughter xix. 118 They don't give you time to be sick, the creatures!
1996 Daily Variety (Nexis) 20 May Critics are..soulless creatures happiest when inflicting the greatest possible pain.
2008 News of World (Nexis) 16 Mar. I never want to see that creature Donovan again and I wish I'd never set eyes on him.
3.
a. A living or animate being; an animal, often as distinct from a person.
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the world > life > [noun]
shaftc888
blooda1325
livera1382
creaturea1387
live-wight1610
animate1642
life form1850
vitality1851
bioform1958
the world > animals > [noun]
neteneOE
wightc888
deerc950
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 215 (MED) Paradys was i-ȝeue to mankynde forto wonye ynne..þe tree of lyf for mete, and al creatures for solace.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1839 (MED) Þat was na creatur in liue þat moght to grund or reche or riue.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 2164 There dwellede cryatur non Saue wilde bestis.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5534 How many kind of creatours þat in þe cole duellis.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.viv Euery beest and lyuynge creature.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C3v Commeth drowsie night, When euery creature shrowded is in sleepe.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. ii. 19 Whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 506 A Creature..not prone And Brute as other Creatures. View more context for this quotation
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Cat, a Creature well known.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 174 Go! from the Creatures thy Instructions take; Learn from the Birds what Food the Thickets yield.
1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 105/2 The camels..These arid and adust creatures.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 79 On introducing a living animal into the air, the creature was suffocated.
1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away xii. 144 His implication is that extraterrestrial creatures occasionally make appearances on this planet.
2007 Nature 15 Nov. 349/1 This year the baiji river dolphin..was added to the list of creatures on the verge of extinction.
b. Chiefly U.S. regional. A farm animal; (in plural) cattle. Now rare.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock
feec900
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orfOE
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storea1300
bestialc1350
cattlea1400
ware1422
quickc1450
goods1472
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live goods1635
team1655
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fat-stock1881
1662 in B. D. Hicks Rec. N. & S. Hempstead, Long Island (1896) I. 105 This day (at a generall towne meeting) was given to Caleb Carman two hollowes;..he is to secure them from all creatures.
1698 Prov. Laws Mass. Act 10 Will. III The owners or claimers of any such creatures [i.e. swine, neat cattle, horses, or sheep], impounded as aforesaid, shall pay the fees, etc.
1757 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry (new ed.) II. vii. iii. 454 When any Creature the Farmer has a Mind to feed with the Turnip, does not take kindly to it at first, the Way is to boil it.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 94 She told us further, that travellers commonly hire a creature (a horse) at her house.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) (at cited word) ‘The creatures will be put into the pasture to-day.’
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 285 He used the word ‘creatures’ for kine, and the like, precisely as our farmers do now.
c1933 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. (at cited word) A tongue is the piece of wood between the two creatures.
4. A person who owes his or her fortune and position, and remains subservient to, a patron; a person who is ready to do another's bidding; a puppet, a cat's paw. Also in extended use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > puppet or toy
hackneya1500
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creature1587
puppet1592
motion1602
baublea1616
plaything1680
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control > one who is under control of another
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ass1614
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere
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1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 159 When they [sc. kings, etc.] giue any man a qualitie which he had not afore, they terme him their Creature, as hauing made somewhat of nothing, in respect of the qualitie wherewith he was indewed.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 246 In their roomes [he] placed other his owne creatures.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 118 This Fellow heere, L. Timon, this thy Creature, By night frequents my house. View more context for this quotation
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxiv. 265 The See of Rome did..dispose of the best Benefices to their own Creatures and Servants.
a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Wealth in Wks. (1707) I. i. 123 To be the Creature, or Servant of Justice and Nature.
1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 256 Sir Francis Windebank..was a creature of Laud.
1787 Times 9 Nov. 3/3 The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, who are chosen by, and are the legal representatives of the Citizens at large, and not merely the creatures of the Corporation.
1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 83 We are but the creatures of circumstances.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 317 He [sc. Wolsey] regarded himself and proclaimed himself simply as the creature of the King.
1968 Guardian 2 Apr. 18/2 Humphrey..is by his office the President's creature and by his speeches the President's apologist.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 25 Oct. 35 The extent to which Saddam Hussein was a creature of the West, encouraged by America and Britain to pursue his aggression against Iran.
5. figurative. A result, product, or offspring of something; a creation.creature of circumstance: see circumstance n. 4a.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product
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burgeona1340
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geniture?1440
fruitc1450
productionc1450
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outbirth1663
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1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xii. 53 Nothing else but creatures of the Fancy.
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 31 Both ships and garments were the creatures of lands and mens labours thereupon.
1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 2) II. 4 Nor are these Miseries imaginary only, or the Creatures of a groundless Panic.
1854 D. Brewster More Worlds xvi. 247 In support of these theories he adduces the zodiacal light, itself a creature of theory.
1855 Sir J. Pearson in Law Times Rep. 53 382/2 The railway and the rights of the railway are the creatures of the Act of Parliament.
1980 W. Maxwell So long, see you Tomorrow (1981) ii. 13 We were both creatures of the period... Heavy-businessman-father-and-the-oversensitive-artistic-son.
1998 Washington Monthly (Nexis) 1 June Sport-utes [= sport-utility vehicles] aren't just the creatures of corporate greed. They're popular because—why not admit it?—they're fun to drive.

Phrases

creature of habit: a person whose behaviour is guided by habit; a person who or animal which tends to follow an unvarying routine.In quot. 1741: an impulse arising from habit.
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1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. 560 The dictates of our unruly passions, being..the creatures of habit, not of nature.
1756 F. Greville & F. Greville Maxims, Characters, & Refl. 250 Is a man a creature of habit, or change?
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 529 If we were not such creatures of habit as we are, we shouldn't have reason to be astonished half so often.
1892 W. S. Gilbert Mountebanks ii. 45 I'm such a creature of habit that I find it difficult to remember that I am no longer a rantipole.
1922 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 18 471 Man, being a creature of habit, dislikes to have his routine changed.
1973 A. J. P. Taylor Let. 1 Feb. in Lett. to Eva (1991) 113 I am a creature of habit and must write once a fortnight for my own sake as well as yours.
2000 Petcare Jan.–Feb. 4/3 Simply move the litter tray to your rabbit's chosen spot—rabbits are creatures of habit and always go in the same place.
2004 D. Cosper Wedding Season i. 3 Which is not to say that I'm not a creature of habit... I am a walking antonym for spontaneity.

Compounds

C1.
a. attributive, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or connected with creatures’, as creature attraction, creature competition, etc.
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1654 J. Norton Orthodox Evangelist 262 All creature-effects (i.e. all such effects, as proceed from the creature,..) presuppose a principle, virtually, or formally, containing such effects.
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 59 All creature-competitions would then be..impossible.
1689 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 364 He is both Jachin and Boaz too; our creature-props are neither.
1740 Diary A. Brodie 130 How moderate should our Expectations and Joys be of Creature-hopes!
1826 W. Jay Christian Contemplated ii. 56 Another prevention is to be found in creature attraction, and worldly cares.
1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. ix. 184 You and I should be governed..by a sense of duty, rather than by the poor creature-longings of the heart.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 13/1 The war was going badly, the officials charged with seeing to the Army's creature needs were doing almost nothing right.
b. Appositive, as creature-delight, creature-god, creature-good.
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1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life ii. 18 The best Creature-delights..are mixed.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plato in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 551 The γεννητοὶ θεοὶ, that is, the Creature-Gods.
1743 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms (new ed.) li. 17 No Creature-Good dost thou desire.
c. Objective, as creature-love, creature-making, creature-worship.
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1665 T. Mall Offer of Farther Help ix. 96 O mortifie self-love, and creature-love.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 472 Injoyning Creature-worship..with the Worship of the Creator.
2003 New Yorker 1 Dec. 54/1 Winston..elevated the craft of creature-making from the somewhat comical man-in-a-rubber-suit monsters of the nineteen-fifties and sixties to animatronics.
C2.
creature comforts n. material comforts such as food, clothing, accommodation, etc., that contribute to physical ease and well-being; (also in singular. creature comfort) any one such comfort.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > material comfort(s)
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convenience1673
conveniency1712
home comfort1797
comforter1837
1641 T. Wilson David's Zeale for Zion 15 A pious mans greatest care is, that (whatever become of him and his liberty, credit, or creature-comforts) vile persons that speake villany, may have their mouthes stopped.
1670 T. Brooks London's Lamentations ii. 49 With plentiful store of all Creature comforts.
1769 B. Wallin Eternal Mansion 31 A just estimate of this life is becoming and useful; but we are prone to over-rate creature-comforts, and place too much upon them.
1850 T. A. Trollope Impress. Wanderer xviii. 281 Toulouse..[is] abundantly supplied with all the creature-comforts of life.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 681/1 Pietro..resolutely denied himself every creature-comfort.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 24 Oct. 58/1 With ingenuity and goodwill the creature-comfort problems of increasing the numbers of our societies quite considerably could be solved.
1990 Ideal Home Apr. 43/2 (advt.) Creature comforts like stereo radio/cassette will help you survive the most gruelling rush-hour marathon.
creature feature n. colloquial a film or television programme featuring fantastical or monstrous creatures.
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1965 Progress-Index (Petersburg, Va.) 28 Mar. 30/6 (advt.) Screen's greatest double creature feature ‘Curse of Frankenstein’ and ‘Horror of Dracula’.
1990 Australian 26 Oct. (Brisbane ed.) 9/4 [A] likeable new creature feature, about a colony of worm-like monsters that surface in the Nevada desert.
2002 Times 4 Apr. ii. 26/3 Michael Crichton's creature feature offers a variation on his Jurassic Park formula, the twist being that this time the jungle location is overrun by super-intelligent gorillas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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