create

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CREATE, verb transitive [Latin] 1. To produce; to bring into being from nothing; to cause to exist. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1. 2. To make or form, by investing with a new character; as, to create one a peer or baron; to create a manor. I create you companions to our person. 3. To produce; to cause; to be the occasion of. Your eye in Scotland would create soldiers, and make women fight. Long abstinence creates uneasiness in the stomach; confusion is created by hurry. 4. To beget; to generate; to bring forth. The people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. Psalms 102:18. 5. To make or produce, by new combinations of matter already created, and by investing these combinations with new forms, constitutions and qualities; to shape and organize. God created man in his own image. Genesis 1:1. 6. To form anew; to change the state or character; to renew. CREATE in me a clean heart. Psalms 51:10. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:10.
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