[FELLOW sb. 11 a, c.l A production of the same Creator; now applied only to human beings and (less frequently) animals.
a. 1648. Ld. Herbert, Life (1770), 35–6. I conceive it a fine Study and worthy a gentleman to be a good Botanique, that so he may know the nature of all Herbs and Plants, being our Fellow Creatures and made for the use of Man.
1682. Otway, Venice Preserved, I. i.
| A most notorious villain: | |
| To see the sufferings of my fellow-creatures, | |
| And own myself a man. |
1729. Butler, Serm., Wks. 1874, II. 51. A good man is friendly to his fellow-creatures, and a lover of mankind.
1809–10. Coleridge, The Friend (1865), 61. Virtue would not be virtue, could it be given by one fellow-creature to another.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 345.
| As what constitutes existence, pure perfection bright as brief | |
| For yon worm, man’s fellow-creature, on yon happier world—its leaf! |
