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One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

y or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.

An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. [Obs.]

A disbeliever in the existence of God.

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [R.]

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius. Mosheim.

One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern. His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. Romilly.

that happened in this article of good breeding. Addison. This last article will hardly be believed. De Foe.

e substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

A believer in Babism.

of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

ions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. Bacon.