English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Belgic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who
anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the
ocean.
Belgravian
(a.)
Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of
London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
Belial
(n.)
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the
personification of evil.
Belibel
(v. t.)
To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
Belie
(n.)
To give a false representation or account of.
Belie
(n.)
To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with,
falsehood.
Belie
(n.)
To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
Belie
(n.)
To mimic; to counterfeit.
Belie
(n.)
To fill with lies.
Belied
(imp. & p. p.)
of Belie
Belief
(n.)
A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
Belief
(n.)
The thing believed; the object of belief.
Belief
(n.)
A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of
any class of views; doctrine; creed.
Belief
(n.)
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.
Beliefful
(a.)
Having belief or faith.
Believable
(a.)
Capable of being believed; credible.
Believe
(v. i.)
To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of
religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise
belief or faith.
Believe
(v. i.)
To think; to suppose.
Believe
(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 believe a
person, a statement, or a doctrine.
Believed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Believe