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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Create \Cre*ate"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Created}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creating}.]
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.
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.
Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. --Shak.
Create in me a clean heart. --Ps. li. 10.
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.'' --Shak.
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