Word: 'creature' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'creature' • Extended Annotations
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."
“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"
| ~☉~ | 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 |