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creature (1113-19)

The form criature is a cross reference to the following entry:

creature (1113-19)

creatur;  criature  
  FEW:  creatura 2/ii,1297b Gdf: GdfC:  creature 9,241c TL: crïature 2,1051 DEAF: DMF:  créature  TLF:  créature  OED:  creature n.  MED:  creature n.  DMLBS:  creatura 513c

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1creature, created being
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Deus fist creatures De diverses mesures  Comput ANTS 231
( MS: 1120-40 ) Plus vos amai que nule creature  S Alexis1 483
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  dolente creature Ke Deu tant eime, tant honure Ke nus furme a sa figure  Pet Phil 2201
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  sicom autres creatures enserveis sunt gardables, aussi sunt serfs a garder de lur possessours  Mir Just 77
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  homme est le plus noble […] creature que soit en sicle, et que Dieux a ordigné d’estre soveraigne et maister dez toutz autrez creaturs et choses […]  Man lang ANTS 3.16
coll.creatures
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Jo t'aim sur tute creature  Brut WACE 1711
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  (God by the term) 'creatu[r]e tute' Designe 'l’ume sul', sanz dute  Mirur3 8981
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  la tierce part de la creature Ke est en la mer, murut a cele hure  Apoc giffard 1542
2(act of) creation
( MS: s.xivm )  il est escript (=in Genesis) de la creature del mound  S Jer 2vb
3creation, created universe
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ne hom ne deit nient duter [...] Qu’il n’ait en sei itel nature Cum ad par lui sa creature,  Lapid 213.262
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Nul n’esgarde la creature, Par tant del creatur n’unt cure  Pet Phil 213
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Treys maneres sunt de contemplaciun. La premere est en creature, la seconde en escripture, […]  Mirour Egl 16.4
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  quele compareison est entre le Creatour e sa creature […]?  Ancren2 65.20
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