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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Credit  \Cred"it\  (kr[e^]d"[i^]t),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Credited};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Crediting}.] 
  1.  To  confide  in  the  truth  of  to  give  credence  to  to  put 
  trust  in  to  believe. 
 
  How  shall  they  credit  A  poor  unlearned  virgin? 
  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  bring  honor  or  repute  upon  to  do  credit  to  to  raise 
  the  estimation  of 
 
  You  credit  the  church  as  much  by  your  government  as 
  you  did  the  school  formerly  by  your  wit.  --South. 
 
  3.  (Bookkeeping)  To  enter  upon  the  credit  side  of  an  account; 
  to  give  credit  for  as  to  credit  the  amount  paid;  to  set 
  to  the  credit  of  as  to  credit  a  man  with  the  interest 
  paid  on  a  bond. 
 
  {To  credit  with},  to  give  credit  for  to  assign  as  justly  due 
  to  any  one 
 
  Crove,  Helmholtz,  and  Meyer,  are  more  than  any 
  others  to  be  credited  with  the  clear  enunciation  of 
  this  doctrine.  --Newman. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  credited 
  adj  :  (usually  followed  by  `to')  given  credit  for  "an  invention 
  credited  to  Edison"  [syn:  {credited(p)}] 




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