creatur

creatur (plural creaturs)

1. Obsolete spelling of creature
   • 1901, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Uncalled‎:

     I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while."

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner‎:

     But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?

   • 1799, George Eliot, Adam Bede‎:

     "Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.

• traceur

creātur

1. third-person singular present passive indicative of creō

From Old French criature.

creatur

1. Alternative form of creature

From Old French creator.

creatur

1. Alternative form of creatour

Borrowed from Latin creātor.

creatur m (oblique plural creaturs, nominative singular creaturs, nominative plural creatur)

1. creator (one who creates)
   • 1958, The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle (based on the Cambridge manuscript, circa 1300)

     Kar quele compareison est entre le creatour e sa creature?

     For what comparison is there between the creator and his creature?

• Almost always refers to the Christian idea of God or Jesus Christ

• Middle French: createur
  • French: créateur

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (creator, supplement)
• creatur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub