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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues. Dryden.

without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance. Reid.

Having belief or faith.

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

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to b…

One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

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

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his…

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual. Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.

A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

Erroneous or false belief.

To believe erroneously, or in a false religion. "That misbelieving Moor." Shak.

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.

The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.

Not believed; disbelieved.

One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.

Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.