Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (a.) Created; composed; begotten.

2. (v. t.) To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

3. (v. t.) To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.

4. (v. t.) To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.