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Believe
BELIE'VE, v.t. To credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of something upon the declaration of another, or upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by other circumstances, than personal knowledge. When we believe upon the authority of another, we always put confidence in his veracity.
When we believe upon the authority of reasoning, arguments, or a concurrence of facts and circumstances, we rest our conclusions upon their strength or probability, their agreement with our own experience, etc.
2. To expect or hope with confidence; to trust.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psa 27.
BELIE'VE, v.i. To have a firm persuasion of any thing. In some cases, to have full persuasion, approaching to certainty; in others, more doubt is implied. It is often followed by in or on, especially in the scriptures. To believe in, is to hold as the object of faith. "Ye believe in God, believe also in me." John 14. To believe on, is to trust, to place full confidence in, to rest upon with faith. "To them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John 1. Johnson. But there is no ground for much distinction.
In theology, to believe sometimes expresses a mere assent of the understanding to the truths of the gospel; as in the case of Simon. Acts 8. In others, the word implies, with this assent of the mind, a yielding of the will and affections, accompanied with a humble reliance on Christ for salvation. John 1:12. 3.15.
In popular use and familiar discourse, to believe often expresses an opinion in a vague manner, without a very exact estimate of evidence, noting a mere preponderance of opinion, and is nearly equivalent to think or suppose.
believe appears in definitions for these words:
Accredit Adherent Alumin Amber Anthropomorphite Anti-christ Apotactite Apprehend Apprehensive Arminian Batement Bay Bear Behoove Belief Believabale Believe Believer Bicker Blare Brake Brave Break Bulbaceous Call Cant Chaliced Chandler Char-woman Chief Choice Christendom Christian Church Clothier Cloy Colander Communion Compurgation Conceivable Conclude Concussion Condemn Conference Confide Confidently Conscience Consubstantial Consubstantialist Consult Corsned Could Count Covenant Cratch Credenda Credibility Credible Credit Credited Creditor Credulity Credulous Credulousness Creed Cupidity Currently Deceit Deceive Deist Demon Deponent Dicker Dictate Difficulty Disbelieve Disbelieved Disciplinarian Discredit Disquietude Disrelish Distend Divinity Doff Doubt Drazel Dump Eadish Eat Emissary Entreaat Error Evince Example Expectation Fail Fairy Faith Fall Fancy Farm Father Ferry Firm Firmly Flash Follow Fool For Forward Galvanist Giant Give Grope Gymnosophist Hear Hold Hone Honorable Imp Implausible Implicitly Importance Incapability Incredible Incredulity Incredulous Independent Intelligence Interest Juggle Just Justifier Kedlack Knoll Know Land Laveer Law Lend Leve Light Like Likely Luxate Make Malady Man Martyr Master Meal Millenarian Miraculous Misbelieve Misbeliever Mortification Mortify Mussulman Mutiny Near Oblige Opponency Orchard Ordain Origin Original Ostensible Overcredulous Owner Pantheist Parol Personable Phlogistian Pipe Placard Polite Polytheist Poor Power Pre-exist Precisianism Predestinarian Prejudice Pretending Pretension Principle Prorogation Purgation Purpose Pyrologist Raddle Ram Rath Re Realize Receive Received Recent Remediable Requirement Respect Reverend Rogue Rug Sack Sad Salamander Salpicon Scientifically Scruple Seek Serve Sexualist Sham Shatters Sherifalty Sillyhow Simple Slipstring Sluice Smithy Smoothen Some Souse Sowins Spade-bone Spasmodic Spatter Spoon Spring Stability Stack Stand Stedfastly Steerage Stroke Stub Superangelic Superlation Suppose Supposed Swamp Swarth Tach Tenet Theist Theology Think Three Thrustings Time Toast Topped Transplantation Trethings Trinitarian Tritheist Trow Trust Unbelieve Unbelieved Unbeliever Uncredible Uncredited Undoubting Unfeignedly Ungainly Uproar Vail Vantage Vehicle Visible Volcanist Vouch Wage Weak Weep Welaway Westering Whip-stitch Whittle Worse Yet
Accredit Adherent Alumin Amber Anthropomorphite Anti-christ Apotactite Apprehend Apprehensive Arminian Batement Bay Bear Behoove Belief Believabale Believe Believer Bicker Blare Brake Brave Break Bulbaceous Call Cant Chaliced Chandler Char-woman Chief Choice Christendom Christian Church Clothier Cloy Colander Communion Compurgation Conceivable Conclude Concussion Condemn Conference Confide Confidently Conscience Consubstantial Consubstantialist Consult Corsned Could Count Covenant Cratch Credenda Credibility Credible Credit Credited Creditor Credulity Credulous Credulousness Creed Cupidity Currently Deceit Deceive Deist Demon Deponent Dicker Dictate Difficulty Disbelieve Disbelieved Disciplinarian Discredit Disquietude Disrelish Distend Divinity Doff Doubt Drazel Dump Eadish Eat Emissary Entreaat Error Evince Example Expectation Fail Fairy Faith Fall Fancy Farm Father Ferry Firm Firmly Flash Follow Fool For Forward Galvanist Giant Give Grope Gymnosophist Hear Hold Hone Honorable Imp Implausible Implicitly Importance Incapability Incredible Incredulity Incredulous Independent Intelligence Interest Juggle Just Justifier Kedlack Knoll Know Land Laveer Law Lend Leve Light Like Likely Luxate Make Malady Man Martyr Master Meal Millenarian Miraculous Misbelieve Misbeliever Mortification Mortify Mussulman Mutiny Near Oblige Opponency Orchard Ordain Origin Original Ostensible Overcredulous Owner Pantheist Parol Personable Phlogistian Pipe Placard Polite Polytheist Poor Power Pre-exist Precisianism Predestinarian Prejudice Pretending Pretension Principle Prorogation Purgation Purpose Pyrologist Raddle Ram Rath Re Realize Receive Received Recent Remediable Requirement Respect Reverend Rogue Rug Sack Sad Salamander Salpicon Scientifically Scruple Seek Serve Sexualist Sham Shatters Sherifalty Sillyhow Simple Slipstring Sluice Smithy Smoothen Some Souse Sowins Spade-bone Spasmodic Spatter Spoon Spring Stability Stack Stand Stedfastly Steerage Stroke Stub Superangelic Superlation Suppose Supposed Swamp Swarth Tach Tenet Theist Theology Think Three Thrustings Time Toast Topped Transplantation Trethings Trinitarian Tritheist Trow Trust Unbelieve Unbelieved Unbeliever Uncredible Uncredited Undoubting Unfeignedly Ungainly Uproar Vail Vantage Vehicle Visible Volcanist Vouch Wage Weak Weep Welaway Westering Whip-stitch Whittle Worse Yet
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