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ef; faith; trust; confidence. When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them. 1 Macc. x. 46.

A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. ]

A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

Worthy of belief. [Obs.] Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow.

The quality of being creditable.

In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.

One who credits, believes, or trusts. The easy creditors of novelties. Daniel.

A female creditor.

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton.

The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.

One who discredits.

Uncredited. [Obs.]

To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit. [Obs.] Fuller.

Discreditable. [Obs.]

rs to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending…

pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak.

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.