Creation

1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

From the creation to the general doom. --Shak.

As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. --Locke.

2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.

We know that the whole creation groaneth. --Rom. viii. 22.

A dagger of the mind, a false creation. --Shak.

Choice pictures and creations of curious art. --Beaconsfield.

3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.

An Irish peer of recent creation. --Landor.