Creature
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"WELL, and so they are "Queer Folk," and I don't care who says the contrary. There is a Warlock – a Witch – a society of Pig-faced Ladies – a quantity of Elves, and several other things and persons which any unprejudiced individual will at once allow to be queer enough to justify the name I have chosen. In fact, I think they are altogether as queer a collection of creatures as ever came together in a story-book ; and if anyone objects to the title, I can only say that if he will write seven queerer stories, and find a better name for the book which contains them, I shall be very much obliged to him."--Queer Folk (1874) is a book by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen |
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A creature is a created being, as opposed to a creator. The term is used colloquially to mean an animal, and is sometimes used to mean monster.
Wiktionary
- A created thing, whether animate or inanimate.
- Anything created or not self-existent.
- A living being that moves of its own volition.
- An animal or human.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- In order to remind the Kapos they were just his creatures, the concentration camp commandant regularly gave one of them an arbitrary lashing on the bare; any willfullness meant replacing by a new, humbler creature
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