What does re-creative mean?
Re-creative means That creates again or in a new way..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
That creates again or in a new way..
The hiſtorian only collects the matter of the day, and hands it to poſterity; but the antiquarian brings his treaſures from remote ages, and preſents them to this: he examines forgotten repoſitories, calls things back into exiſtence, which are paſt; counteracts the efforts of time, and of death; poſſeſſes ſomething like a re-creative power; collects the duſt of departed matter, moulds it into its preſtine ſtate, exhibits the figure to view, and ſtamps it with a kind of immortality.
Mutely each re-creative lay outpour’d / Its own revealings; / Youth, manhood, age, were momently restored, / With all their feelings.
One should always be careful, of course, not to confuse the creative artist with the re-creative one (as [Giuseppe] Verdi once remarked, that is the way to the abyss).
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Re-creative means That creates again or in a new way..
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The hiſtorian only collects the matter of the day, and hands it to poſterity; but the antiquarian brings his treaſures from remote ages, and preſents them to this: he examines forgotten repoſitories, calls things back into exiſtence, which are paſt; counteracts the efforts of time, and of death; poſſeſſes ſomething like a re-creative power; collects the duſt of departed matter, moulds it into its preſtine ſtate, exhibits the figure to view, and ſtamps it with a kind of immortality.
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