ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Brought into being by an agent or cause. esp. a. Made or formed by the divine power. b. Constituted of a certain dignity or rank.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 705. But what created mind can comprehend Thir number?
1784. Cowper, Task, V. 586. He is held In silly dotage on created things, Careless of their Creator.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 428. A newly created Marshal of France, the Duke of Noailles.
Hence Createdness.
1665. J. Sergeant, Sure Footing, 35. Their very Createdness and Finitness entitle them to defectibility.
1856. Faber, Creator & Creature, I. i. (1886), 13. The double sense of His creation and of their createdness (to coin a word) is not in all their thoughts.
