Cre-āte'1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. CREATED; p. pr. & vb. n. CREATING.] [Lat. creare, creatum, to create; It. creare, Pr. crear, Sp. & Pg. crear, criar, Fr. créer.]
Sense 1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.
Sense 2. To effect by the agency and under the laws of causation; to be the occasion of; to produce.
Your eye, in Scotland, Would create soldiers, and make women fight. Shak.
Sense 3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make.
Arise, my knights of the battle: I create you Companions to our person. Shak.
O, rather, gracious sir, Create me to this glory. Ford.