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.
From the creation to the general doom.
Shak.
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.
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.
We know that the whole creation
groaneth.
Rom. viii. 22.
A dagger of the mind, a false creation.
Shak.
Choice pictures and creations of curious
art.
Beaconsfield.
3. The act of constituting or investing
with a new character; appointment; formation.
An Irish peer of recent creation.
Landor.