(1) That which has been created, i.e.,produced out of nothing, viz., all things outside of God.
(2) In philosophy, a contingent being, i.e.,ones not necessarily determined by reason of its nature to actual existence, but presupposing a first cause, a necessary being, as its efficient cause, namely God.
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