Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRE-A'TION, n.

1. The act of creating; the act of causing to exist; and especially, the act of bringing this world into existence. – Rom. i.
2. The act of making, by new combinations of matter, invested with new forms and properties, and of subjecting to different laws; the act of shaping and organizing; as, the creation of man and other animals, of plants, minerals, &c.
3. The act of investing with a new character; as, the creation of peers in England.
4. The act of producing.
5. The things created; creatures; the world; the universe. As subjects then the whole creation came. – Denham.
6. Any part of the things created. Before the low creation swarmed with men. – Parnell.
7. Any thing produced or caused to exist. A false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain. – Shak.