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One who believes in hylotheism.

A believer in hylozoism. A. Tucker.

he earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.

denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

To represent to one's self; to think; to believe. Shak.

One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.

Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed. "Implausible harangues." Swift. -- Im*plau"si*ble*ness, n. -- Im*plau"si*bly, adv.

One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth.

eligious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.

Incredible; not easy to be believed. [R.] Shak.

One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.

Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.

Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity. The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. V. Knox.

especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies. The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honor after death. Bp. Warburton. He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. Spectator.

is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. Tillotson.

n between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants. We have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses take place with all animals and plants. Darwin.

A member of the International; one who believes in, or advocates the doctrines of, the International.

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.

One who believes and practices Judaism.