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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Creature \Crea"ture\ (kr?"t?r; 135), n. [F. cr?ature, L. creatura. See {Create}.] 1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him --Fuller. God's first creature was light. --Bacon. On earth, join all ye creatures, to extol Him first him last him midst, and without end --Milton. And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. --Cowper. 2. A human being in pity, contempt, or endearment; as a poor creature; a pretty creature. The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak. 3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. --Shak. Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. --Macaulay. 4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc {Creature comforts}, those which minister to the comfort of the body. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: creature n 1: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: {animal}, {animate being}, {beast}, {brute}, {fauna}] 2: a human being `wight' is an archaic term [syn: {wight}] 3: a person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: {tool}, {puppet}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Creature denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
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