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Creation

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Creation
Creation Cre*a"tion (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cr?ation. See {Create}.] 1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. [1913 Webster]

From the creation to the general doom. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. [1913 Webster]

We know that the whole creation groaneth. --Rom. viii. 22. [1913 Webster]

A dagger of the mind, a false creation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Choice pictures and creations of curious art. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]

3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. [1913 Webster]

An Irish peer of recent creation. --Landor. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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Фильмы

  • First Soviet Earth Satellites., 1957 — Annotation: About work of Soviet scientists at creation of spacecrafts; launch of the first artificial Earth satellite. Film description: Scheme of the rocket and spacecraft mock-up of Tsiolkovsky…
  • And the Dawn Uprose, 1981 — Annotation: The film tells how socialistic countries appeared after the World War II. Film description: The film is about how to combat internal and external reaction to decide his fate of working…
  • Dear creation., 1984 — Film description: XI Session of the Supreme Soviet of the tenth convocation. Annotation: The magazine describes the work of the 9th session of the Supreme Soviet of the Tenth Convocation, the…