sub-creatorn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌbkrɪˌeɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈsəbkriˌeɪdər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, creator n.

Etymology: < sub- prefix + creator n. Compare subcreation n., subcreative adj.

1. A secondary or subordinate creator.

ΚΠ

1695 S. Hill Vindic. Primitive Fathers i. 44 But what shall be done to convince an Arian, who will confess our Lord a Sub-Creator of all things..under the Father,..though himself was created by God the Father?

1713 C. Place Heretical Char. ii. 54 The Demiurgus, or imaginary Sub-Creator,..an untoward Kind of Parent of Things.

1867 H. Doherty Org. Philos. II. iv. 146 God creates the soul of man;..and man, as a subcreator, invents and constructs a locomotive or a watch.

1881 J. S. Grimes Probl. of Creation 172 Those operations and those substances that prevent wounds and disease are its [sc. health's] sub-creators.

1930 W. C. Lanyon Impressions of Nomad 12 The man in the fog of..belief tries to make the best of it by refashioning things... He strikes off blindly on the path of a sub-creator, not heeding the injunction that there is One Creator.

2005 E. Schenkel in P. Parrinder & J. S. Partington Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe vi. 93 Herman Sörgel..was an architect who saw himself as a subcreator jostling with continents and oceans.

2. spec. J. R. R. Tolkien's word for: a person who creates a ‘secondary’ world or worlds (see subcreation n. 2). Later also more generally: an author regarded as occupying the position of God in relation to his or her own fictional creation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place > creator of

sub-creator1947

1947 J. R. R. Tolkien in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 51 The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter.

1951 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. in Silmarillion (1979) (front matter) p. xvi The sub-creator wishes to be the Lord and God of his private creation. He will rebel against the laws of the Creator—especially against mortality.

1972 P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth (1973) vii. 201 The sub-creator of secondary worlds of fantasy at the height of his inspiration.

1986 K. Ware in C. Jones et al. Stud. Spirituality iv. vii. 197 Each man or woman is a creator after the image of God the Creator, a ‘sub-creator’ in J. R. R. Tolkien's phrase.

1999 R. Harland Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes iii. 35 As divinely inspired sub-creator, the poet must follow God, the supreme creator, in dispensing morally appropriate rewards and punishments.

2002 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 24 June 32 For both Lewis and Tolkien it was only..by becoming a sub-creator in inventing stories, that man could ascribe to the perfect state of perfection that he knew before the Fall.

2011 L. M. White Jane Austen's Anglicanism i. iii. 86 The novels display the workings of Providence, as engineered by a sub-creator, whose values are meant to be in complete accord with the Creator himself.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sub-creator
释义	sub-creatorn. Brit. /ˈsʌbkrɪˌeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈsəbkriˌeɪdər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, creator n. Etymology: < sub- prefix + creator n. Compare subcreation n., subcreative adj. 1. A secondary or subordinate creator. ΚΠ 1695 S. Hill Vindic. Primitive Fathers i. 44 But what shall be done to convince an Arian, who will confess our Lord a Sub-Creator of all things..under the Father,..though himself was created by God the Father? 1713 C. Place Heretical Char. ii. 54 The Demiurgus, or imaginary Sub-Creator,..an untoward Kind of Parent of Things. 1867 H. Doherty Org. Philos. II. iv. 146 God creates the soul of man;..and man, as a subcreator, invents and constructs a locomotive or a watch. 1881 J. S. Grimes Probl. of Creation 172 Those operations and those substances that prevent wounds and disease are its [sc. health's] sub-creators. 1930 W. C. Lanyon Impressions of Nomad 12 The man in the fog of..belief tries to make the best of it by refashioning things... He strikes off blindly on the path of a sub-creator, not heeding the injunction that there is One Creator. 2005 E. Schenkel in P. Parrinder & J. S. Partington Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe vi. 93 Herman Sörgel..was an architect who saw himself as a subcreator jostling with continents and oceans. 2. spec. J. R. R. Tolkien's word for: a person who creates a ‘secondary’ world or worlds (see subcreation n. 2). Later also more generally: an author regarded as occupying the position of God in relation to his or her own fictional creation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place > creator of sub-creator1947 1947 J. R. R. Tolkien in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 51 The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. 1951 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. in Silmarillion (1979) (front matter) p. xvi The sub-creator wishes to be the Lord and God of his private creation. He will rebel against the laws of the Creator—especially against mortality. 1972 P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth (1973) vii. 201 The sub-creator of secondary worlds of fantasy at the height of his inspiration. 1986 K. Ware in C. Jones et al. Stud. Spirituality iv. vii. 197 Each man or woman is a creator after the image of God the Creator, a ‘sub-creator’ in J. R. R. Tolkien's phrase. 1999 R. Harland Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes iii. 35 As divinely inspired sub-creator, the poet must follow God, the supreme creator, in dispensing morally appropriate rewards and punishments. 2002 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 24 June 32 For both Lewis and Tolkien it was only..by becoming a sub-creator in inventing stories, that man could ascribe to the perfect state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. 2011 L. M. White Jane Austen's Anglicanism i. iii. 86 The novels display the workings of Providence, as engineered by a sub-creator, whose values are meant to be in complete accord with the Creator himself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1695
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