单词 | created |
释义 | createdadj. Brought into being; constituted; caused; esp. (a) made or formed by a divine being or natural agency; (b) invested with a certain rank, title, or status.Recorded earliest in well-created adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > by a divine power created1533 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani iv. sig. D.jv Synne hath euyl corrupte & decayed that whiche was well created [L. bene conditum]. 1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. ii Contrary to god, is what so euer is repugnaunt to him & his nature, as:..To graunt with Basilides that god is a created mynd [etc.]. 1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 68 The soule is a created substance, inuisible, hath no image nor fashion but onely of his creature. 1649 Perfect Diurnall No. 317. 2721 Mr. George Windeam a late created Lord of Sessions, is appointed to go to their King. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 705 But what created mind can comprehend Thir number. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 586 He is held In silly dotage on created things, Careless of their Creator. 1825 Lancet 18 June 328/1 Man is a created being. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 428 A newly created Marshal of France, the Duke of Noailles. 1893 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 187/1 The sages approach Brahman by means of his manifestation, his created works. 1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 48/2 The dogma of the created Koran was declared heresy; therewith began a persecution of all the adherents of that doctrine and other Motazilite tenets. 1987 E. Newby Round Ireland in Low Gear (1988) v. 66 The last glaciation took place only about fifteen thousand years ago, making this one of the most recently created landscapes in the whole of Europe. Derivatives creˈatedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created > state of being created createdness1665 originatedness1862 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 35 Their very Createdness and Finitness entitle them to defectibility. 1857 F. W. Faber Creator & Creature i. i. 13 The double sense of His creation and of their createdness (to coin a word) is not in all their thoughts. 1980 Nature 24 Apr. 667/2 The last of those topics..rests on the dogma of the createdness of all things visible and invisible. 2006 Church Times 13 Jan. 14/3 Our createdness is far more fundamental to us than our sin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1533 |
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