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creed en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kɹid/ (General-American)
  • /kɹiːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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  • (UK) audio
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“to believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱréd-dʰeh₁-ti (“to trust, believe”, literally “to place one's heart”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish creitid (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śráddadhāti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”).

Meanings

  1. That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
    • For three successive years, thereafter, as the anniversary of the War [i.e., World War I] came round, equally large assemblies of British subjects of all races and creeds came together in the [Victoria] Theatre to reaffirm the resolution to carry on the war to a victorious end, until at last, after many vicissitudes, victory was secured to the Allies. 1923, Song Ong Siang, “The Tenth Decade (1909–19): Second Part”, in One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 522:
    • Oh! who young Leila's glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust? 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: […] T[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12:
    • Man, being the child of imitation, has a general tendency in life and in religion to follow the creed and tastes of his fathers, whether in the ways of wisdom or folly—perhaps more readily in the latter. 1881, John Younger, “Introductory Chapter”, in Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells, Kelso, Scotland: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, page xiv:
    • Holonyms: belief system, cosmology
    • Near-synonym: dogma
    • He killed our tribes, he killed our creed / He took our game for his own need 1982 February 12, Steve Harris, “Run to the Hills”, performed by Iron Maiden:
    • Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups. 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2017:
  2. (specifically) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
    • The Apostles' Creed was not the only creed to come into existence in the period of the early church. However, it is the oldest and simplest creed of the church. All Christian traditions recognize its authority and its importance as a standard of doctrine. To study the Apostles' Creed is to investigate a central element of our common Christian heritage. 2015, Alister [Edgar] McGrath, “Getting the Most out of Apostles’ Creed”, in Apostles’ Creed (LifeGuide Bible Studies), Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 6:
    • [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […] 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40:
    • A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs
  3. (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.
    • Oh love! how perfect is thy mystic art, / Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong, / How self-deceitful is the sagest part / Of mortals whom thy lure hath led along— / The precipice she stood on was immense, / So was her creed in her own innocence. 1819, [Lord Byron], “Canto I”, in Don Juan, London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, →OCLC, stanza CVI, page 56:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
creeds Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

creedsman · creedless · Nicene Creed · Apostles' Creed · creedism · creeded · creedal · miscreed · Athanasian Creed · multicreed

Hyponyms

Athanasian Creed · Nicene Creed · Apostles' Creed

Relateds

credible · credential · credendum · credibility · credence · credulity · credent · credobaptist · credit · credal · credophile · credulous · creditor · credenza · creditable · credo · credobaptism

Synonyms

dogma

Translations (93)

sl nazor (that which is believed) · bg вероизпове́дание (that which is believed) · fr crédo (that which is believed) · sh кре̑до (that which is believed) · bg ве́рую (that which is believed) · cmn 信經 /信经 (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · he דָּת (that which is believed) · bg кредо (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ga cré (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · is trúarjátning (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · cs krédo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · fa باور (that which is believed) · gl credo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · pt crença (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · nv oodlą́ (that which is believed) · de Glaubensbekenntnis (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · el δόγμα (that which is believed) · ja 教義 (that which is believed) · hu hitvallás (that which is believed) · pt credo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ko 교의 (that which is believed) · vi tín điều (that which is believed) · hu hitvallás (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · nl geloofsovertuiging (that which is believed) · hu hiszekegy (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · sh veruju (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · de Credo (that which is believed) · sh верују (that which is believed) · sh вјерују (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · sh veruju (that which is believed) · ru си́мвол ве́ры (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · sv tro (that which is believed) · gl credo (that which is believed) · nl geloofsbelijdenis (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · sh krȇdo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · sh vjeruju (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · no tro (that which is believed) · uk си́мвол ві́ри (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · de Kredo (that which is believed) · ru ве́ра (that which is believed) · enm crede (that which is believed) · nl credo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ka მრწამსი (that which is believed) · fo trúarjáttan (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · hu meggyőződés (that which is believed) · hu krédó (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · it credo (that which is believed) · sv troslära (that which is believed) · es credo (that which is believed) · eo kredokonfeso (that which is believed) · ang crēda (that which is believed) · cmn 信條 /信条 (that which is believed) · de Glaubensbekenntnis (that which is believed) · fi uskontunnustus (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · pt crença (that which is believed) · ru конфе́ссия (that which is believed) · sh krȇdo (that which is believed) · bn আকায়েদ (that which is believed) · pt credo (that which is believed) · sh vjeruju (that which is believed) · ru кре́до (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · mi whakapono (that which is believed) · hu hit (that which is believed) · ga cré (that which is believed) · sq besim (that which is believed) · no trosbekjennelse (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ar عَقِيدَة (that which is believed) · fr crédo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ko 신조 (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · fi usko (that which is believed) · sh кре̑до (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ru кре́до (that which is believed) · sh верују (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · bg ве́рую (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · cmn 信條 /信条 (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · eo kredo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · sh вјерују (that which is believed) · ro credință (that which is believed) · es credo (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ru вероиспове́дание (that which is believed) · bn আকায়েদ (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · cmn 教義 /教义 (that which is believed) · hu ars poetica (that which is believed) · sv trosbekännelse (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · cs vyznání (that which is believed) · sl prepričanje (that which is believed) · ka რწმენა (that which is believed) · sv lära (that which is believed) · ja 信条 (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ota شهادت (reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents) · ka აღმსარებლობა (that which is believed) · fa عقیده (that which is believed) · el πίστη (that which is believed)

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creed en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /kɹid/ (General-American)
  • /kɹiːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • (UK) audio
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“to believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱréd-dʰeh₁-ti (“to trust, believe”, literally “to place one's heart”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish creitid (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śráddadhāti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”).

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete, qualifier:only survives in "creeded") To believe; to credit.
    • Only this I marvelled, and other men have since, whenas I, in a ſubject ſo new to this age, and ſo hazardous to pleaſe, concealed not my name, why this author, defending that part which is ſo creeded by the people, would conceal his. 1645 March 4, J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Ansvver against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Wherein the Trivial Author of that Answer is Discover’d, the Licencer Conferr’d with, and the Opinion which They Traduce Defended, [London]: [Printed by Matthew Simmons?], →OCLC; republished in The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now More Correctly Printed from the Originals, than in Any Former Edition, and may Passages Restored, which have been hitherto Omitted. To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings [by Thomas Birch]. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, 1753, →OCLC, page 326:
    • And ſo, no doubt, were his other Preferments as acceptable, which did require ſuch Athanaſsian Subſcriptions, &c. and which he in an Athanaſian Form ſubſcrib'd, creeded, and worſhip'd for till his dying-day. 1731, Simon Scriblerus [pseudonym], Whistoneutes: Or, Remarks on Mr. Whiston’s Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke, &c., London: Printed for T. Warner, at th Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, page 42:
    • 'I was n't for creeding me awn e'en,' believing my own eyes. [1873, John Harland, “Creed”, in A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire (Series C (Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Editions); 4), London: Published for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 45:
  2. (intransitive) To provide with a creed.
    • The poor like Priests—Priests utilise the poor; / High Church the common people feeding / Exclaims—"You Low Church indolents observe / How we go about leavening and creeding!" 1872, “The Survivor” [pseudonym; Walter Rowton], “Part the Fourth”, in Hal and I. In Four Parts, London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 122:
    • Especially in the studies of religions less creeded than Christianity scholars have long insisted on the importance in religion of sacred stories. 1977, Peter Slater, “Religion as Story: The Biography of Norman Bethune”, in Peter Slater, editor, Religion and Culture in Canada = Religion et Culture au Canada, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, →ISBN, page 290:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
creeded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
creeded Tense=Past lexicographic
creeds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
creeding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Translations (15)

pt crer (to believe, credit — see also believe) · es creer (to believe, credit — see also believe) · sh ispovedati veru (to believe, credit — see also believe) · no tro (to believe, credit — see also believe) · pt acreditar (to believe, credit — see also believe) · nl geloven (to believe, credit — see also believe) · el πιστεύω (to believe, credit — see also believe) · bg вя́рвам (to believe, credit — see also believe) · fi uskoa (to believe, credit — see also believe) · gl crer (to believe, credit — see also believe) · ro crede (to believe, credit — see also believe) · sh vjerovati (to believe, credit — see also believe) · sh verovati (to believe, credit — see also believe) · de glauben (to believe, credit — see also believe) · sh ispovijedati vjeru (to believe, credit — see also believe)

wikipedia: Constantine the Great · wikipedia: First Council of Nicaea · wikipedia: Nicene_Creed#Niceno-Constantinopolitan_Creed