credulity (kreduliti)

[F. crédulité =Sp. credulidad = Pg. credulidade = It. credulità, Wearied from doubt to doubt to flee, We welcome fond credulity , Guide confident, though blind. Scott, Marmion, iii. 30. There is often a portion of willing credulity and enthusiasm in the veneration which the most discerning men pay to their political idols. Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. IMG:content-1583.png:[blocks in formation] I marvelled, when as I, in a subject so new to this age, creem (krēm), v . t . See crim. concealed not my name, why this author defending that part which is so creeded by the people would conceal his. Milton , Col aster i on. creedal (krē'dal), a. [ creedal unity. [Rare.] IMG:content-1584.png:[blocks in formation] A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms That he suspects none. (-men). [ creed's , po . of creed, + man.] A maker of or believer in a creed or creeds. The Children and fools are ever credulous , And I am both, I think, for I believe. Beau , and Fl . , King and No King, iv. 4. Independent (New York), May 25, 1871. IMG:content-1585.png:[blocks in formation] creek1 (krēk), n . [In the United States common- ly pronounced and sometimes written crick ; ear- ly mod. E. creek and crick , creke (a doubt- ful spelling), reg. crike , cryke , cryk (with short vowel), an inlet, cove, like F. crique , a creek, of Scand. origin: kriki , a nook, = Sw. dial. krik, a bend, nook, corner, creek, cove, = D. kreek , a creek, bay, = AS. * crecca , a creek, pre- served in the proper names Creccagelād , now Cricklade in Wilts hire, and Creccanford, Crec- ganford , now Crayford in Kent. See crick2.] 1. A small inlet, bay, or cove; a rece in the shore of the sea or of a river, or of any consid- erable body of water. He knew wel alle the havenes, as the i were,. And euery cryke [var. cryk , 1 MS.; creke , Tyrwhitt] in Bre- tayne and in Spayne. And as Almyghty God and theyr good hap wolde, on Tewysdaye in the nyght the rage of the sayd tempest put theym into a lytell kryke bytwene.ij. hylles at the shore. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 75. We cro ed the plain near the sea, and came to a very small bay, or creek. This creek is the old harbour Metallum, or Metal i a, now called Matala. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 250. On the bank of Jordan, by a creek , Where winds with reeds and osiers whispering play. Milton , P. R., ii. 25. creed (krēd), n. [ crede (sometimes, as L., credo ), crēda = Icel. kredda (also, af- ter L., kredo ) = MHG. crède (cf. Gael. cre ); in other languag languages usually in L. form, form, OF. F. Pr. Sp. Pg. It. credo , creed; credo , I believe, the first word of the Latin version of the Apos- tles' and Nicene creeds; 1st pers. sing. pres. ind. act. of credere , believe, trust, confide: see credit , v.] 1. A statement of belief on any subject, it' religious, political, olitical, scientific, or other; especial- especial- ly, a formal statement of religious belief; a "form of words, setting forth with authority certain articles of belief which are regarded by the framers as nece ary for salvation, or at least for the well-being of the Christian Church" ( Schaff , The Creeds of Christen dom, I. i.). In the Protestant churches the authority of creeds is relative and limited, and always subordinate to the Bible as the only infallible rule of faith and practice. In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches the creed of the church 3t. A turn or winding. is regarded as of equal authority over the believer with the Bible. The principal historical creeds of Christen- dom are the following: the Apostles Creed (see apostle ) and the Nicene Creed (see Nicene ), both originating in the fourth century, and generally accepted by Christian churches, Protestant, Greek, and Roman Catholic; the Ath- an asian Creed (see A than asian ), retained by the Church of England, but not by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, nor by other Protestant communi- ties; the Decrees of the Council of Trent (A. D. 1563), the great symbol of Romanism (see Tri dentine ); the Orthodox Confe ion of Mogilas (seventeenth century), and the creed ratified by the Synod of Jerusalem (1672), both recognized by the Greek Church; the Augsburg Confe ion (1530), the symbol of the Luther an Church; the Helvetic Confes- sions (two confe ions, a first and a second Helvetic Con- Le er streams and rivulets are denominated creeks . Goldsmith. creep (krēp), v. i.; pret. and pp. crept , ppr. creeping . [ crepen (pret. crep, crap, crope, pl. crupe , cropen, crope, pp. cropen, crope), creópan (pret. creáp , pl. crupon , pp. cropen ), creep, crawl, = OS. kriopan = OFries. kriapa = D. kruipen = MLG. LG. krupen = Icel. krjúpa = Sw. krypa = Dan. krybe = (with ch from k = p) OHG. chriochan , MHG. G. kriechen , creep.] 1. To move with the body near or touching the ground, as a reptile or an insect, a cat stealthily approaching its prey, or an infant on hands and We wol nouzt krepe of [out of] these skinnes lest vs schathe tidde (harm befall us]. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3084. The slow-worm creeps , and the thin weasel there Follows the mouse. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 2. In bot .: (a) To grow prostrate along the ground or other surface. (b) To grow below the surface, as rooting shoots. A creeping plant usually fastens itself by roots to the surface upon which it grows. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old. 3. To move along, or from place to place, slowly, feebly, or timorously; move impercep- tibly, as time. Now age is cropen on me ful stille, And makith me oold & blac of ble, And y go downeward with the hille. The whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. Shak ., As you Like it, ii. 7. Hour after hour crept by. Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. 2 Tim. iii. 6. The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination. Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of Locke . argument. 5. To move or behave with extreme servility or humility; move as if affected with a sense of humiliation or terror. The pa age of alleys, creeks , and narrow lands. Shak., C. of E., iv. 2. agayne. Hence-41. A device; an artifice; a trick. The more queynte crekes that they make, The more wol I stele. Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, 1. 131. 5. A small seaboard town of insufficient im- portance to have a customs-station of its own. [Eng.] E. D. creekt (krēk), v . i. [ creek1 , n.] To twist and wind; form a creek. The salt water so creeketh about it, that it almost insu- lateth it [a town]. Holland , tr. of Camden. creek 24, v. and n. An obsolete spelling of creak1 , creek-fish (krēk'fish), n . A local name in the United States of the chub-sucker. A water, whose outgushing flood Ran bathing all the creakie shore aflot. symbol of doctrine by the Reformed Church of the Nether lands and the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America; the ing creeks; full of creeks; winding. Thirty-nine Articles (1563-71) of the Church of England and (revised in 1801) of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; the Savoy Confe ion (1658), a Con- gregational symbol, and formerly generally accepted by Congregationalists; and the Twenty -five Articles of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1784), of which the first twenty-four were prepared by John Wesley, on the basis of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. A number of other special declarations of faith by other Protestant bodies are of le historical significance. The word creed , however, in its strict sense applies only to comparatively brief formulas of profe ion of faith (as the Apostles' Creed), beginning with the words "I believe" or "We believe," and intended to be used at baptism or reception of converts, or in public worship. Also wher the Postyllys [Apostles] made Crede of ower feyth. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 29. And the Creed was commonly then called the Rule of Stilling fleet , Sermons, III. ii. Men of science do not pledge themselves to creeds . Huxley , Origin of Species, p. 145. 2. What is believed; accepted doctrine; espe- cially, religious doctrine. creel (krel), n. [Sc. creel, creil, creill, crail, crelle , craidhleag = Ir. craidhlag , a basket, creel, related to Gael. creathall = Ir. craidhal, a cradle. Le prob. crilin , a box, chest, coffer, pyx.] 1. An osier basket or pannier. Specifically - ( a ) A basket for carrying on the back or sus- pended from the shoulder: as, a fish-wife's creel ; an an- gler's creel ; a miner's creel . (b) A basket or cage for catching lobsters or crabs. 2. In angling , fish that are placed in a creel; the catch.-3. In a spinning-machine, a frame- work for holding bobbins or spools.-4. A kind of frame used for slaughtering sheep upon. [North. Eng.] IMG:content-1586.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1587.png:[blocks in formation] etc. creeper IMG:content-1588.png:[blocks in formation] Thou knowest how lame a creeple the world is. Donne, Anat. of World, v. 238.