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dge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is th…

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

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, 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.

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

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

to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height. Sir W. Scott.

The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. [Archaic.]

One who, or that which, relieves.

Not believed; disbelieved.

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

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

ation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.

One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.

To believe; to credit; to put trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

e. Whether there are such beings or not, 't is sufficient for my purpose that many have believed the affirmative. Dryden.