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self-creˈated, ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
Created, brought into existence, or constituted by oneself.
1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 403 That God promiseth to keep him in his ways, but not in self-created dangers. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 198 The self-created distinction of polished society. 1815W. Price Hist. Oswestry 78 Napoleon Buonaparte, the self-created emperor of the French. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. iv. I. 72 The particular, partly self-created, character of Gibbon's mind.
So self-creˈate ppl. a. (rare) = prec.; self-creˈation; self-creˈating, -creˈative adjs., capable of self-creation.
1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (1886) 270 They divided the universe into..the uncreate, the *self-create and the created.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 119 As the muscle is thus furnished with a kind of *self-creating power.
1862Spencer First Princ. i. ii. §11 (1875) 32 The hypothesis of *self-creation, which practically amounts to what is called Pantheism. 1898Illingworth Div. Immanence i. §1 This capacity of self-determination, and therefore of self-creation, compels us to place will in a category by itself.
1845Bailey Festus 12 Thy might is *self-creative. 1898Illingworth Div. Immanence i. §1 We are, in a measure, self-creative, causes of ourselves. |