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disbelieve, v.|dɪsbɪˈliːv|
[f. dis- 6 + believe v.]
1. trans. Not to believe or credit; to refuse credence to:
a. a statement or (alleged) fact: To reject the truth or reality of. (With simple obj. or obj. clause.)
1644[see disbelieving below]. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 18 (R.) There have been doubtless in all ages such as have disbelieved the existence of any thing but what was sensible. 1712Spect. No. 527 ⁋2 People will be as slow and unwilling in disbelieving scandal, as they are quick and forward in believing it. 1795Southey Joan of Arc i. 77 That misgiving which precedes belief In what was disbelieved and scoff'd at late For folly. 1864J. H. Newman Apologia 162 Did Henry VIII..disbelieve Purgatory? 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ix. §2 (1879) 395 It does not rest with any man to determine what he shall believe or what he shall disbelieve. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 68 He disbelieves In the heart of him that edict which for truth his head receives.
b. a person in making a statement.
1699Bentley Phal. 273 Plutarch disbelieved Phanias. 1826Hallam in Edin. Rev. XLIV. 2 There would be no historical certainty remaining, if it were possible to disbelieve such a contemporary witness as Sir Thomas More.
2. absol. or intr.
1755Young Centaur i. Wks. 1757 IV. 106 Eve doubted, and then eat..most of Eve's daughters first taste, and then disbelieve. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iii. 188, I feel it is not possible to hear and disbelieve. 1818–60Whately Commonpl. Bk. (1864) 48 It is very evident that the opposite to credulity is scepticism, and that to disbelieve is to believe.
3. intr. with in: Not to believe in; to have no faith in: cf. believe 1, 3.
1834W. Ind. Sketch-bk. I. 172 He disbelieves in the glowing changes of colour in the dying dolphin. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh v. 739, I disbelieve in Christian pagans, much As you in women-fishes. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 222, I do not altogether disbelieve in the story.
Hence disbeˈlieving vbl. n. and ppl. a.; disbeˈlievingly adv., in a disbelieving manner; with disbelief.
1644Hammond Pract. Catech. (J.), The disbelieving of an eternal truth of God's. 1893Chicago Advance 22 June, Hester shook her head disbelievingly, but Daisy rattled on. |