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t. [imp. & p.
p. Made (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Making.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian;
akin to OS. mak&?;n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G.
machen, OHG. mahh&?;n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan.
mage. Cf. Match an equal.] 1. To
cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame;
to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or
applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause
to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.

He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he
had made it a molten calf.

Ex. xxxii.
4.

(b) To produce, as something artificial,
unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a
story.

And Art, with her contending, doth aspire

To excel the natural with made delights.

Spenser.

(c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be
the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often
used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that
corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to
complain; to make record of, for to record; to make
abode, for to abide, etc.

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