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noun

Creed n.

A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive. "In the Protestant system the creed is not coordinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible."

Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. "I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed."

Apostles' creed, Athanasian creed, Nicene creed. See under Apostle, Athanasian, Nicene.

verb

Creed v. t. To believe; to credit. (Obs.) "That part which is so creeded by the people."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creed" Quotes from Famous Books

... an energy and spirit all his own. On the subject of Catholic Emancipation he took a peculiar view. As he justly said, he hated bigotry, and would have left the Catholics quite alone, but for the great claims of their creed to interfere with political life. And even so, when the penal laws were once abolished, he would have abolished also the representative disabilities, as quite useless, as well as very irritating when ...

— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton

... us pray together. Ann, my good Ann, thou who first taught me to lisp a thanksgiving and a request, kneel here by my side—and you, too, mademoiselle; though of a different creed, we have a common God! Cousin John, you pray often, I know, though so little apt to show your emotions; there is a place for you, too, with those of your blood. I know not whether these gentlemen are too proud ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... of this century it was one of the canons of the popular geological creed that the first warm-blooded quadrupeds which had inhabited this planet were those derived from the Eocene gypsum of Montmartre in the suburbs of Paris, almost all of which Cuvier had shown to belong to extinct genera. ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

... wishes of any of the states conflicted with the interests or wishes of the Union. That the national sentiment could grow at all rapidly, considering the maturity of the communities which composed the Union and the differences of origin, creed, and manners which separated them, no calm observer of human nature would believe for ...

— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.

... known you—never mind how! For some time I have wished to meet you. I am not an impostor, nor do I desire to pose as the goddess of a new creed. But you, Irving Baldur, are a man among men who will appreciate what I may show you. You love, you understand, perfumes. You have even wished for a new art—don't forget that there are others in the world ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

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