Word Meanings - CREATURELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
CREATURELY
Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
CREATURAL
Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.
CREATURESHIP
The condition of being a creature.
CHARACTERISTICALLY
In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
CHARACTERISTICAL
Characteristic.
CREATURE
1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light.
CREATURELESS
Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.
FELLOW-CREATURE
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.