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Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty (, n.

That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv.

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

One who believes in Benthamism.

goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.…

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

all, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

ther instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak.

To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties). [Obs.] There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again. Carew.

A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of sou…

A divine vocation or summons. St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. Locke.

A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.

s called Reformed Presbyterians) who refused to recognize laws or institutions which they believed contrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now avail themselves of political rights.

The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

One who believes in casualism.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is appare…