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creature

Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of creature

circa 1300, "anything created"
hence "a thing" in general, animate or not, but most commonly "a living being"

1580, meaning of "person who owes his rise and fortune to another"

1650s, creature comforts, "material comforts, food, liquor, etc."

creature noun

something created either animate or inanimate: such as
- a lower animal
  especially: a farm animal
- a human being
- a being of anomalous or uncertain aspect or nature
a person whose position or fortune is owed to someone or something and who continues under the control or influence of that person or thing; one that is the servile dependent or tool of another; instrument

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Specific examples and quotes of creature

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

"Animal Farm"
by George Orwell

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense