Believe: alternatives and connections

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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To wait for; to await.

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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a…

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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

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To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.

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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

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One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

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Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

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Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

Believe overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

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Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

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