Creature vs Cratur - What's the difference?
creature | cratur |
A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 A living being; an animal or human.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 240:
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(dialect) A creature.
*1835 , James Baillie Fraser, The Highland Smugglers
*:An' my ould een turned, an' my heart sickened; but I aye cried to mysel', "silly coward cratur , are ye frighted to see what ye prayed to behold?"
*1907 , John Watson, The Scot of the eighteenth century: His religion and his life
*:"Keep him out," cried Dr. Henry, "don't let the cratur in here."
As nouns the difference between creature and cratur
is that creature is (archaic|chiefly|literary|and|philosophy) while cratur is (dialect) a creature.creature
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Thoughts, my mindes creatures , often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
- the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature .
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- they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.