a. [f. CREATURE + -LY1.] Of, belonging to, or proper to creatures; of the nature of a creature.

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1662.  J. Sparrow, trans. Behme’s Rem. Wks., Apol. conc. Perfection, 114. In the Creaturely humanity of Christ.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 473. Sensible Objects, and Creaturely Forms.

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1752.  Law, Spirit of Love, I. (1816), 29. Every creaturely spirit must have its own body.

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1872.  Liddon, Elem. Relig., iv. 155. The conditions of creaturely existence.

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1879.  R. Flint, Anti-theistic Th., viii. 301. The perversity of the creaturely will.

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