believer, beleever

[Eng. believ(e); -er.] A. Ordinary Language: I. Gen.: One who believes or who gives credit to anything. "Discipline began to enter into conflict with churches, which, in extremity, had been believers of it."-Hooker. II. Spec.: One who holds a definite religious belief. 1. A Christian. have been maintained by the universal body of true believers, from the days of the apostles, and will be to the resurrection."- Swift . 2. A profe or of some other faith. the soul of one believer outweighs all earthly Kingships; all meu, according to Islam too, are equal." -Carlyle: Heroes , Lect. ii B. Ch . Hist . ( plur .): There are three British Teligious sects at present thus named (a) Believers in Christ. (b) Believers meeting in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (c) Believers in the divine visitation of Joanna South cott, prophete of Exeter. The second of these, that named (b), appears for the first time in the Registrar General's List for 1878. be-liē'v-ing, pr. par., a., & s. [BELIEVE.] A. & B. As pr. participle & adjective : In ⚫ senses corresponding to those of the verb. "Now God be prais'd, that to believing souls Gives light ht in darkne , comfort in comfort despair." Shakesp.: 2 Henry VI ., ii. 1. C. As substantive: The act or operation of accepting as true. (Rom. xv. 13.) In a believing inanner, as a believer would do. (Johnson.) * bě-life, * bě-liff, adv. *bě-light ( gh silent), v.t. To illumine, to shine on. [BELIVE.] ( Scotch.) [Eng. be, and light.] "Godes brihtne e, belihte hem."-0. Eng . Homilies (ed. Morris), ii. 31. bě-like, *bě-lyke, adv. [Eng. be; like.] Perhaps; there is a likelihood that; probably. It is becoming rare in English, and is not very common in Scotch. "Belike, boy, then you are in love." -Shakesp.: Two Gent. of Verona, ii. L "Things that I know not of belike to thee are dear." Words worth: Pet Lamb. *bě-like-lý, adv. [Eng. belike; -ly.] Probably; there is a likelihood that. "Having be likely heard some better words of me than I could deserve."- Bp. Hall: Specialties of his Life