creation

n. [ L. creatio: cf. F. cr&unr_;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 ]

a. Of or pertaining to creation. [ 1913 Webster ]