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    Create , a. [L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. κραίνειν to accomplish, Skr. kṛ to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.] Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]
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    Hearts create of duty and zeal.
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    Create, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Created; p. pr. & vb. n. Creating.]
    1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
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      In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
      Gen. i. 1.

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    2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
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      Your eye in Scotland
      Would create soldiers.
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      Create in me a clean heart.
      Ps. li. 10.

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    3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. “I create you companions to our person.”
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