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‖ credenda, n. pl.|kriːˈdɛndə|
Also 7 in Anglicized form credends.
[L. crēdenda (things) to be believed, neut. pl. of crēdend-us, gerundive of crēd-ĕre to believe.]
Things to be believed; propositions forming or belonging to a system of belief; matters of faith. (Opposed to agenda, things to be done, matters of practice.)
1638Chillingworth Relig. Prot. i. 41 Those points of Faith..which were meerely and purely Credenda, and not Agenda. 1641Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 20 Nov. xiv. 63 There is a great difference..between the Agends and the Credends of a Christian. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 325 There never yet was a people of philosophers..their credenda being too..speculative for vulgar comprehension. 1841Miall Nonconf. I. 481 Is the power of selecting the credenda of the nation to be vested in the civil magistrate? |