Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRE-ATE', v.t. [Fr. creer; It. creare; Sp. and Port. criar; L. creo; Arm. croui; Corn. gurei. In W. crëu signifies to create, and creu, to cry, to crave, to caw, to beg. W. creth and crez, constitution, temper; also, a trembling or shivering with cold. Ir. croth or cruth, form, shape; cruthaighim, to create, to prove, assert, maintain. From the Celtic then it appears that the L. creo is contracted by the loss of a d or th. The Welsh has also cri, a cry, and criaw, to cry, both deduced by Owen from cre; but cre is a contraction of crevu, to cry, or of gryd, a crying or whooping, or cryd, a shaking. In Welsh also cri signifies rough, raw, crude; all which unite in the root of cry, cradle, L. rudo, to bray. The primary sense of create and of cry is the same, to throw or drive out, to produce, to bring forth, precisely as in the Shemitic ברא. But the Welsh crëu and creu may perhaps be from different roots, both however with the same primary sense.]

1. To produce; to bring into being from nothing; to cause to exist. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. – Gen. i.
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. – Shak.
3. To produce; to cause; to be the occasion of. Long abstinence creates uneasiness in the stomach; confusion is created by hurry. Your eye in Scotland / Would create soldiers, and make women fight. – Shak.
4. To beget; to generate; to bring forth. The people, which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. – Ps. cii.
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. – Gen. i.
6. To form anew; to change the state or character; to renew. Create in me a clean heart. – Ps. li. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. – Eph. ii.