English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.

To libel or traduce; to calumniate.

To give a false representation or account of.

To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.

To mimic; to counterfeit.

To fill with lies.

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A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

The thing believed; the object of belief.

A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

Having belief or faith.

Capable of being believed; credible.

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

To think; to suppose.

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 believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

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