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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

... burning eyes of unutterable, self-forgetting love, whose worship is a ceaseless ministration of self-forgetting deeds—the one real ideal church, the body of the living Christ, built of the hearts and souls of men and women out of every nation and every creed, through all time and over all the world, redeemed alike from Judaism, paganism, and all the false Christianities that darken ...

— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... allowing him the privilege of doing so, can go along its course safely; can eat, drink, and be merry. If few men can rise high, so also can few men fall low. Political equality is the one thing desirable in a commonwealth, and by this arrangement political equality is obtained. Such is the modern creed of many an educated republican ...

— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope

... the imagination. To ninety per cent. of these men the situation lost much of its edge; to the remaining ten the edge was sharpened. What is to be is to be, in war as elsewhere. Fatalism as regards one's own prospects is inevitable; essential. But fatalism is an unsatisfying creed; the word "Why?" is apt to creep into the back of a man's mind, and the word "Why?" when the intelligence is low, is a dangerous one. For the word "Why?" can only be satisfactorily answered by the realisation of the bigness of the ...

— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

... larvae, by diligent search in dirty corners. The Independents were the only Dissenters of whose existence Milby gentility was at all conscious, and it had a vague idea that the salient points of their creed were prayer without book, red brick, and hypocrisy. The Independent chapel, known as Salem, stood red and conspicuous in a broad street; more than one pew-holder kept a brass-bound gig; and Mr. Jerome, ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

... to work actively once more. She was a Western girl, and an insistence on freedom was the first article in her creed. A great rush of anger filled her, that this man should set himself ...

— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse

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