creditn.
/ˈkrɛdɪt/, U.S. /ˈkrɛdət/ I. General senses.† 4. The charge, trust, or care of a person (to which a thing is committed); = credence n. 4. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete.† 6. Something believed as true; a belief; a report. Obsolete. rare.
1. The estimate in which the character of a person (or thing) is held; reputation. Now rare except as passing into other senses.
a. Favourable estimation, good name or standing, honour; an instance of this.See also to lay to one's credit at lay v.1 27b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [noun]
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1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xv. f. xciv The temporal man..was a good worshypfull man, and for hys trouthe and worshyp was in grete credyte.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 329 Undir the pane of..tinsall of perpetuall honour, estimatioun, honestie, and crydett.
1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 372 What credite and worshippe is wonne by learning.
1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 22 At whiche tyme Chaucer was a grave manne, holden in greate credyt.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 149 They will be drunke..Nor is it..losse of credit with them.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 55 This they did to save their own Credits.
1704 Ld. Godolphin Let. 26 May in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 563 Whether your own creditt with these people can ease this difficulty.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 2 John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown.
1886 J. A. Froude Oceana ii. 33 The captain had his own and his ship's credit to maintain by a quick passage.
1921 R. A. Nicholson Stud. Islamic Mysticism i. 22 If he is a person of credit and renown amongst them, his declaration carries the same weight as, in matters of law, the testimony of an honest witness.
b. In a neutral sense.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun]
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1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 175 Such as have the name and credite of wise men.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 356 A deepe dissembler..whereby he purchased vnto himselfe that credit, that he was not of any his neighbour princes..either beloued or trusted.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 290 Their Credit, be it good or bad, depends chiefly on the Successe and Event.
1718 Free-thinker (1722) No. 37. 271 He does not hear a Note; and thinks to enjoy the Credit of being a very Idle Fine Gentleman, and an excellent Flutenist.
1824 Mem. Rossini Introd. p. xxxiii This brilliant exploit served him as a topic of conversation for years afterwards, and he gained the credit of being less a fool by half than he was formerly.
1880 ‘H. Lee’ Mrs. Denys of Cote II. xviii. 14 He had the credit of a rare tormentor amongst the feeble folk, but he was much too prudent to try a fall with his master's young wife.
1926 C. Sandburg A. Lincoln (2002) iv. 60 Had he named the woman he could have had credit as a vicious gossip.
2.
a. Right to be believed; authority on which to be accepted as true, truthful, or authentic.Except in on the credit of not always clearly distinguishable from sense 2b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > basis of testimony, authority
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1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Chron. Scotl. (1938) I. 33 This message had þe moir creditt.
1546 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 18 Jan. (1933) 224 It wer good to use the counsayl of such here as knowe the conditions of them, and partely upon ther credite to take them, in my poore opinion.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. O3v That his sicknesse was naturall..the credite of others as well as my selfe can testifie.
1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 209 I haue heard the particularities of this terrible visitation, from the mouth of the Curate of the place, and other Inhabitants of good credit, who had beene spectators of all.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Staff. 39 I dare take it on the credit of an excellent Witness.
1749 J. Wesley Let. 4 Jan. (1931) II. 342 It will be said..that these instances show a weakness of judgement, but do not touch the credit of Justin as a witness of fact.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 455 The above-mentioned inscription..rests only on Pighi's credit.
1829 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 256 It would be as wise to recommend wolves for nurses at the Foundling, on the credit of Romulus and Remus.
1895 Weekly Reporter 10 Aug. 654/1 False evidence wilfully and corruptly given as to matters affecting the credit of the witness is material.
1916 C. Ohira in T. Iyenaga Japan's Real Attitude toward Amer. 93 His story has lost credit as it should, though it has in all probability served the yellow papers as material that can be ‘played up’.
1994 W. L. Sessions Concept of Faith iv. 202 A person (divine or otherwise) can disclose information to someone about herself and be believed on the credit of her word.
2001 A. Middleton Fathers & Anglicans iii. xi. 226 Justin's slips of memory do not materially affect his credit as a witness of the church.
b. The quality of being generally believed or credited; reputation for truthfulness, accuracy, or honesty; trustworthiness, credibility (of a person, statement, etc.). Earliest in letter of credit n. 1 at Phrases 5; later frequently of losing credit.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 2a.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > credibility > [noun]
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1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 114 The French king had sent him a letter of credit for his ambassador.
1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 37 So euident an assurance of rewarde (if he bee of credite that hath promised it).
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 408 The creditt of which opinion I see not how it can be of any force.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures 2 Purchas, a Writer of good credit here in England, gives this testimony of my Author.
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 198 This..Absurdity..destroys the Credit of the Story.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) iii. 284 He is contradicted by other authors of better credit.
1757 D. Hume Four Diss. iv. 231 The abstract philosophy of Cicero has lost its credit.
1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 139 His revelations destroy their credit by running into detail.
1899 A. Del Mar Worship of Augustus Caesar viii. 276 It lost credit with the learned after the discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes.
1920 R. Metzler Trial Evid. 399 The impeachment of the credit of a witness by showing that he has made statements at other times contradictory of his testimony given on the trial, has the same effect.
1983 F. Barlow Norman Conquest & Beyond vi. 59 The credit of the story is not, therefore, damaged by the falsity of the charter.
2011 J. Schleck Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands Introd. 22 A bill written by a debtor considered untrustworthy would not be accepted in lieu of immediate payment; such a person lacked credit, in both senses of the term.
3. The mental action or state of accepting something as true; = credence n. 2. See also tickle credit at tickle adj. 3a.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun]
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1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 111 With purpois to haue gevin na credit to thir ymaginaciouns.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Solon in Panoplie Epist. 193 My..forewarning watchwordes were counted unworthy credite.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xi. 45 Which deed..might rather be imputed to the oresight of light credit, then to any vntroth or infidelity.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 64 The rariety of it is..indeed almost beyond credit . View more context for this quotation
1674 W. Allen Danger of Enthusiasm 15 To procure Credit to it by many Signs and Wonders.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. v. 422 What grew on trees people soon asserted to be the fruit of trees, and from step to step the story gained credit with the hearers.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 58 Charges like these may seem to deserve some degree of credit.
1848 Rambler Oct. 138/2 Surely they are guiltless of such marvellous blundering as Dr. Hook imputes to them, when he puts credit in the statement of the Directory.
1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School II. v. 90 No doubt the insinuations, if true,—or if of such kind as to be worthy of credit with your lordship, whether true or false,—were severe, plain-spoken, and damning.
1903 Papyrus Dec. 16 That in our democratic air..attainment should have been ignored, heroism disfavored, and intellectuality barred, in favor of wealth, seems beyond credit.
2008 H. MacDonald Beethoven's Cent. iii. 36 An absurd story, which gained some credit in Italy, to the effect that Paganini's fiddle strings were made from the interior of a dead Pope.
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society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > a commission given to anyone
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > keeping or custody
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1537 tr. Erasmus Expos. xv. Psalme sig. G.vv Only is he noted fautye of periurye which doth forsweare a thinge put to his custodye or credyte as be pledges and suche other.
1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. B8 Suche offices of trust..as ye haue committed to an other mannes credit.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. iii. 12 The Lord Chauncelour..and euerie Iustice of the Kings Bench, haue (closed in their offices) a credite for conseruation of the peace.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Lev. vi. 2 The thing delivered to his custodie, which was committed to his credite.
a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 401 William Dowglas had the credite of the keyes.
5. Personal influence based on the confidence or trust of others; power derived from character or reputation.
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society > authority > [noun] > authority based on character or reputation
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1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. f.i They woulde be called gospellers to procure sum credit, & good opinions, of the true and very fauourers of Christes doctrine.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 69 He vas resauit rytht honorabilye and gat gryt credit amang them.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Caecina in Panoplie Epist. 82 Very muche can you obteine of his friends, so good is your credite.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 68 To bringe him selfe into credit at Court.
1644 G. Markham in Cal. State Papers (1888) Domestic Ser. 86 I hear that Essex loses credit with his party, and Waller gains ground of him.
1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 101 Buckingham..resolved to employ all his credit, in order to prevent the marriage.
1777 R. H. Lee Let. 20 Nov. (1911) I. 351 An old, corrupt, and powerful people, who having much credit and influence in the world will venture on things that would totally ruin the reputation of young and rising communities like ours.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. vii. 534 Granvelle..was not slow to perceive his loss of credit with the regent.
1888 M. B. Anderson tr. G. Boissier Madame de Sévigné i. 56 This is a sign of the times: literature is becoming a power, and Bussy makes use of it to bring himself into credit.
1902 G. S. Shuckburgh Hist. Rome xxxi. 515 The historian Polybius, who used his credit among the nobility at Rome in their behalf.
1963 J. W. Doberstein tr. H. Thielicke Life can begin Again vii. 84 He may even be a swindler who takes a certain pleasure in wearing a pious cloak in order to gain credit with his honest fellow citizens and then cheat the daylights out of them.
2008 C. Tilly Credit & Blame iii. 89 By that time, he had lost his credit among his partners in crime.
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society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report
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1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature xvi. f. 39 These seueral opinions, intende rather to aduaunce the estimation and propertie of stones, than to persuade a credit that they haue either motion or feeling.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. iii. 6 There I found this credite, That he did range the towne to seeke me out. View more context for this quotation
7. Honour or commendation given or received on account of a particular action, personal quality, etc.; acknowledgement of merit or achievement.
a. After to.
(a) With preceding quantifier or adverb of degree. much (also greatly, little, etc.) to the credit of: so as to reflect very well, not very well, etc., on.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [adverb]
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much (also greatly, little, etc.) to the credit of1868
up there1970
1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 393 Yet was he better liked for his courtlike behauiour, which in the end turned not so much to his credit, as to the vtter ruine and spoile of his church.
1600 J. Colville Palinod sig. C If by anie malitious person anie thing bee added or put out in my name..I shall..charge the authors thereof in such sort, as perhaps shall bee to his Maiesties contentment, and litle to their credite.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 609 He governed the proconsulate of Asia little to his credit.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xvii. 64 This will be no more to the credit of your choice, than to that of the approbation he meets with from your friends.
1779 A. Hewat Hist. Acct. Rise & Progress Colonies S. Carolina & Georgia II. x. 255 The duel..terminated without bloodshed, and not a little to the credit of the Scots officer.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 8 Jan. in French & Italian Notebks. (1980) 16 If it be ever so little to their credit.
1868 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 191 658 That is greatly to the credit, not only of his head, but of his heart.
1917 R. H. Eastman Big Little Person iii. 25 It was considerably to his credit that he was so nice and decent, besides being lovable, for his parents had seemed anxious to make the worst of him.
1966 Amer. Econ. Rev. 56 1 It is not much to the credit of the economics profession..that it took an engineer..to call our attention to the fact that [etc.].
2006 P. Jackson Start-up at New Met x. 245 Oddly, and greatly to her credit, I heard her recently..deliver a beautifully poised, elegant rendition of the aria.
(b) Without quantifier, etc., to the credit of: so as to reflect well on, as a commendable aspect of. to one's credit: credited to one; as an achievement.
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1602 N. Breton Poste with Madde Packet Lett. I. sig. B2v I aduise you to leave such courses, as are neither to your credit, nor my contentment.
1671 C. Wase tr. B. Priolo Hist. France x. 379 He returned to Munster, after he had brought the Provinces to be of one mind, which was to his credit.
1741 G. F. Secretary's Guide (new ed.) i. 12 Be double diligent in my Absence, that I may find all Things safe and well at my Return, and it will rebound to your Credit.
1785 J. Disney Mem. A. A. Sykes vi. 273 It surely is to the credit of the present age, that by a late act of parliament..several penal clauses in the former laws against papists are repealed.
1814 T. F. Dibdin Bibliotheca Spenceriana III. 331 Renouard has, to his credit, made the ‘amende honorable’; and given a tolerably copious account of the impression, from a copy in the collection of Count Trivulzio.
1885 Current (Chicago) 30 July 158/1 His ‘Fleeming Jenkin’ and his ‘Underwood’..are down for immediate publication; so that he will have two new books to his credit ere he embarks for your hospitable shores.
1920 H. Klein Reign of Patti x. 124 She read a good deal, and it may be noted to her credit that she cared only for good fiction.
1958 J. Wain Contenders ii. 32 It was the one courageous action he had to his credit, and he had been caned.
1964 R. D. Jacobs in R. C. Simonini Southern Writers (1969) ii. 34 Even with three volumes of verse to his credit, Poe at twenty-two was an unknown writer.
2007 Business & Commerc. Aviation (Nexis) May 9 To his credit, he drums skillfully.
b. With of an action, quality, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > [noun]
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1587 R. Rawlyns tr. Homer Nestor his Antilochus in tr. Orpheus sig. B3 All good councell take vnto thee now My friend, to get the credite of the Race.
1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot vii. 267 Eche of them greedily desiring to haue the credite of that iourney, as men that did affect and aspire to the greatest offices and highest dignities.
1607 S. Hieron Three Serm. iii. 83 The Ephraimites..were..offended with Gedeon, because he called not them to the battell..they would haue had the credit of it.
1681 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 130 I would not have..you [deferred] the credit of your inventions.
1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (rev. ed.) II. xl. 194 Promising him both the advantage and the credit of it, both the honour and the reward.
1796 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLIII. 566 Had he attended, and persuaded the House to alter some of the most obnoxious clauses, then with some justice..he might have got the credit of a triumph.
1833 H. Gaulter Origin & Progress Malignant Cholera in Manch. 6 Two inspectors were set to watch the canal-boats—a feeble array against an enemy that had the credit of having overmatched the armed cordons of Austria and Russia.
1876 G. D. Mathews Coinages of World i. 8 The credit of inventing coined money has been claimed for the Persians.
1931 A. D. Innes Leading Figures in Eng. Hist. (1967) viii. 156 The actual attack on the harbour was led by Ralegh, to whom more of the credit of the success was due than to any of the other commanders.
1961 A. H. Gardiner Egypt of Pharaohs (1964) iii. xv. 407 Grdseloff, to whom..belonged the credit of having insisted upon these points.
2007 C. Blomberg Physics of Life ii. vi. 46 The person who got the credit of solving the problem..was Max Planck.
c. With for an action, quality, etc.† (c) to give a person a credit for: to trust a person to fulfil (an expectation or requirement). Obsolete. rare.
(a) to give a person credit for: to attribute to a person as a quality, esp. a good one; to consider a person responsible for something notable or praiseworthy; occasionally also of a (personified) thing.Cf. to give credit at Phrases 4a.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > assign as properly relating to
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to give a person credit for1641
1641 T. Killigrew Prisoners i. iv. in Prisoners & Claracilla sig. B8v Thou break'st with the gods, thou breakst with him That gave thee credit for thy courage.
1699 S. Jenks Pract. Disc. Morality of Gospel iii. 63 We are evidently Guilty of a double Folly, if we do not gladly accept of what we have in Hand, and thankfully submit to give him Credit for the Rest.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxvi. 176 She gave herself credit for that perplexity in my behaviour.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv [They] give her credit for sincerity.
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 123 And as for the clock..The Dame only gave it credit for ticking.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. i. 15 He gives no credit to kings or emperors for any other motive.
1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter x. 152 You're a heap-sight smarter man than I gave you credit for bein'.
1946 G. Conklin Best of Sci. Fiction Introd. p. xv H. G. Wells..has given Stockton credit for helping him along the road which eventually resulted in The Time Machine.
1967 Ebony Aug. 126/2 He gives full credit to his mother for having ‘raised him straight’.
2003 A. Greenwald Nothing feels Good iii. xii. 220 That said, the network..isn't nearly as Orwellian as its many detractors give it credit for being.
(b) In various phrases relating to the obtaining or claiming of credit.
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1751 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 507/1 So early as Agricola the divining Rod was in much request, and has obtained great credit for its discovering where to dig for metals and springs of water.
1798 C. Mordaunt Let. July in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) x. 243 I hope our conduct may gain us credit for discipline, but am terribly afraid of the cheap Irish whiskey.
1826 R. Sharp Diary 14 Sept. (1997) 65 I believe he would fill the Bellies of the hungry but at the same time would not wish to have any credit for so doing.
1875 Ohio Educ. Monthly Feb. 61 All that we can claim is the credit for having studied it and expounded its rationale.
1941 Astounding Sci.-Fiction May 50 You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.
1974 O. Keepnews In Defense of Lenny in View from Within (1988) v. 153 Elman and yet another writer..get fragmentary credit for other literary chores.
2005 J. Canseco Juiced 237 I deserved credit for 'resurrecting' myself from the cartoon-superhero junk heap'.
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1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 33 They..gave you a generous credit for the future blessings of your reign.
(d) to take (the) credit for: often with an implication of injustice to the person truly responsible.
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1793 Parl. Reg. Ireland XIII. 210 If you a Protestant House of Commons, mean to give up your power to the Catholics, do so; I shall acquiesce; but do it openly; it may be a magnanimous act, and take the credit for your magnanimity.
1891 S. R. Gardiner Hist. Civil War III. lxiv. 439 He never takes credit for any plan of the kind.
1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope Introd. p. xiii The Italians..also wanted to take credit for the invention of the compound microscope, for the famous Italian astronomer Galileo also invented such an instrument in 1610.
1973 J. O'Grady Survival in Doghouse 74 I shut up and let Ray take all the credit.
1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) viii. 242 I don't need some multi-limbed Cosmic Dancer..to take the credit for saving my skin.
d. With to following.
(a) In various contexts.
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a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 36 They did eluctate out of their injuries with credit to themselves.
1801 J. Breckenridge Let. 13 Jan. in B. B. Oberg Papers T. Jefferson (2005) XXXII. 458 Should you deem it inexpedient to reappoint Mr. Mc.Dowell..Mr. Jouitt would execute the trust, with great credit to himself.
1840 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. 19 Let not the Northerners take credit to themselves from this outline of old Virginia husbandry.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xviii. 171 For all this waywardness, he took great credit to himself as being determined to be in earnest ‘this time’.
1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 93 He took credit to himself that..her son remained stanch.
1937 Lancet 18 Dec. 1436/1 ‘The Queen Charlotte's Textbook’..was published too early to include the result of research on the sulphanilamides that has brought credit to this famous hospital.
1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill x. 325 Adam, far from being moved, chose to remark that the transaction was not the sort to redound much credit to either side.
1993 Time Out 31 Mar. 109/4 All credit to McCarthy, however, the physicality of his performance transcends the tedious talking-headishness of so many one-man shows.
1994 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (rev. ed.) 273 Credit to Lionel Tiger for the thought about genes being nature's marketing tool.
(b) Often in to do credit to (also with indirect object): to bring honour to, to cause to be commended.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > gain credit by [verb (transitive)] > do credit or bring honour to
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1679 tr. Abbé Pageau Intrigues Court of Rome i. 24 The same Cardinal..would have less need to lavish the Revenues of the Church for maintaining of his rank, and doing credit to the Holy See.
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 172 [A treatment] that seemed to please him highly, as it did him credit in the presence of his lady.
1768 T. Gray Let. 18 Dec. in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 84 Temple does himself much credit with me by this letter.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. vii. 157 God grant that I may do credit to it.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iv. xiii. 325 That your grandson should succeed in life, and do you credit.
1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir v. 167 For those three years he..lived a life of meditation that would have done credit to a student of Râja Yoga attaining Samâdhi.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vii. 160 She was no doubt straining every plate and stringer to do herself credit.
1993 Newfoundland Sportsman Winter 33/2 But with the liberal use of birch rind and creosote splits we soon have fires going that would do credit to Dante's Inferno.
e. Without construction.
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1677 Smithfield Jockey 5 His services had not gain'd him so much credit to be Assistant to Sr. Timothy Nick and Froth, overseer of the Taphouse and Vice-Roy of the Low-Contries next adjacent.
1774 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. App. 141 Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
1794 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. Two Houses Parl. II. 69 The Marquis said that he was happy to have shared the credit which belonged to so correct a measure.
1814 Examiner 7 May 415/2 There is one consolation to be derived from the change of measures by the administration.., which we cannot forbear to state, and we are willing that the government should fairly receive all credit to be inferred from it.
1832 J. Richardson Wacousta I. v. 123 Yet, to be sincere, the credit is not mine, but Wentworth's.
1902 T. Roosevelt in Green Bag Mar. 148/2 In the chase of the ‘Colon’ the ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Oregon’ share the credit between them.
1912 Motion Picture Story Mag. Aug. 159 (advt.) The Edison Company is now crediting the authorship of plots on film when such credit is deserved, and this should have the effect of giving the writer something to strive for.
1990 J. Chancellor Peril & Promise ii. 96 In the public's mind, however, Reagan got the credit, or the blame, because he was such an enthusiastic hawk.
2005 A. Wyllie WWII Victories of Army Air Force Introd. 4 When two or more fighter pilots shared an aerial victory, the US Army Air Force (USAAF) usually divided credit among them.
8. Something or someone creditable; a source of commendation or honour. Now only in a credit to.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [noun] > a source of credit or honour (to)
worshipeOE
honourc1325
glorya1382
diadem1526
credit1586
plume1605
honestation1629
reputation1653
a feather in the cap, hat1699
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. P7 Making you to beleeue, that to become a roister is credite.
1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 784 Such as prowdly boast of their famous countrey, esteeme it a credit to beare the denomination thereof.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 104 This is much credit to you. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 2 Conceiving it more credit..to go then to be driven away.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 8 Mar. He..may be a Credit to the College.
1754 J. Hill Urania at Zahala It is a credit to those who gave it originally, it signifies something that goes backward, and was a term therefore very properly given to that planet.
1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xxi. 159 These worthy gentlemen belong to Mr. Wesley's Society, (and notwithstanding they have imbibed many enthusiastic whims) yet would they be an honour to any society, and are a credit to human nature.
1825 Husband Hunting III. xi. 132 When your honour got promotion—when the Gazette came in that night, my master made me read every syllable of it—said that you were a credit to the name of Vaughan.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 55 You are a credit to the school.
1911 ‘K. Howard’ Cheerful Knave xvi Breakfast? Yer a credit to yer calling, I don't think.
1954 Life 26 July 83 The low-priced furnishings are now so well styled that they are a credit to any room in the house.
2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 Mar. 26/1 It's a credit to her and her campaign that she has moderated her personality step by step.
II. Business and Finance. Cf. slightly earlier credit v. I.
9. Trust or confidence in a customer's ability and intention to pay at some future time, shown by allowing money or goods to be taken or services to be used without immediate payment.
a. Generally. See also on credit at Phrases 1.In some cases passing into sense 10a.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit
creance1399
trust1509
credence?a1513
credit1542
tick1668
strap1828
jawbone1862
sock1874
cred1973
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 4 Sundrie persons..consume the substance obteined by credite of other men.
1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 385 You are forced (because of credit and forbearaunce) to give a greater price.
1617 T. Roe Let. 6 Dec. in Embassy of Sir T. Roe to Court of Great Mogul (1899) II. 447 Your bills for Agra are receiued..cloth bartered; Creditt for about 25,000 rupees.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 196 By light Skermishes of borrowing smaller sums of Money..and paying them againe, thereby to gain credit for greater sums.
1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 15 Credit being..the expectation of Money within some limited time.
1744 W. Horsley Serious Considerations on High Duties Examin'd 28 People may trade with less Capitals, and consequently have less Occasion for Credit, and so less Reason to raise the Price of their Commodities.
1779 B. Franklin Let. 30 Sept. in Wks. (1888) VI. 444 I shall pay it all in honoring their drafts and supporting their credit.
1844 S. Jackson tr. E. C. P. Guizot Young Student I. xi. 172 He acknowledged their claims, asked for credit, and promised them, without deceiving them as to his real position, to pay them as soon as he was able.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 110 Any one who lends a thing gives credit, and he who borrows it receives credit.
1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) xiv. vi. 523 Another way of making my money breed money is by early payments to the mills. Not only can I do without their credit, but I can afford to pay them six months in advance.
1940 V. C. Smith tr. F. Machlup Stock Market, Credit & Capital Formation xvi. 265 If the banks look upon securities with certain market values as sufficient cover for a loan of a certain figure, this does not mean to say that they are bound to give credit to everybody who can offer this kind of collateral.
1994 R. Chandavarkar Origins Industr. Capitalism in India (2002) v. 191 They were also extremely important in Nasik where they facilitated credit to the value of Rs. 70,000.
b. With indication of a length of time between the borrowing of money and repayment, or between the acquisition of goods or services and payment for them.
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1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 4) I. xxvii. 357 He buys his wool..at two or three months credit.
1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 23 The Shopkeepers giving a great Advance in Consideration of a very long Credit, and to be drawn out in Shop Notes.
1756 G. G. Beekman Let. 21 June in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 283 The Proffits are Light and will not admit of Long Credit.
1793 J. Dornford Motives & Consequences Present War impartially Considered 51 Our trade to other countries..is much more lucrative and beneficial, as the prices are considerably higher, and the payment, if not immediate, at a very short credit.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xix. 263 That the purchasers [of books] take long credit.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 393/2 No longer is the day the general buying day for the circumjacent country as formerly, when the farmers having great households of slaves sent in their wagons, and bought on twelve months' credit, knowing it would be twenty-four months' if they desired.
1921 P. D. Converse Marketing Methods & Policies xxiii. 603 Some give only short credit but extend credit to almost anyone.
1969 Changing Times Jan. 24/1 You may find an instalment account handy when you need extended credit.
2005 J. Hart in R. Bean Harvest (Research Interviews) 135 We always used to pay at the end of the month following, and then it got to be three months credit, thirty days from the end of the month.
10.
a. Money lent or borrowed with an agreement as to repayment; money placed at a person's disposal in the books of a bank, etc., which may be drawn on to the extent of the amount; (more widely) the value of goods or services available without immediate payment. Also: the availablility of such funds. See also on credit at Phrases 1.e-, open, revolving credit, etc.: see the first element. See also line of credit n. at line n.2 30c.
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?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xvii. sig. E3 If it be duly found, that the man be so farre at after deale, that he be not able to pay his whole credite in reasonable tyme, that than the lawe may bynd them, that euery man may haue pound an pound a lyke.
1710 J. Broughton Vindic. & Advancement National Constit. & Credit 40 The Stock of Money and Credit in the Bank exceeds theirs.
1779 A. Hewat Hist. Acct. Rise & Progress Colonies S. Carolina & Georgia II. ix. 189 The merchants must have indulgence from England, the primary source of credit.
1846 Corr. Convict Syst. Norfolk Island 101 in Sessional Papers House of Lords VII. Their Credit at the Store was forced to be limited to Eleven Marks daily, the Price of their ordinary Ration.
1878 Austral. Jrnl. Oct. 79/1 On one occasion, being refused credit for food by the proprietor of the Crémerie where I used to take meals occasionally, I was obliged to go to the lecture hall without breakfast.
1920 River & Harbor Appropriation Bill (U.S. House of Representatives) 137 It is quite possible that all of their money was expended in building that section and that there is no credit left to the city of Galveston in the funds on hand.
1984 L. Deighton Mexico Set ii. 18 His name is on his membership card and his credit at the bar is in that name.
2011 Daily Tel. 9 May (Business section) b4/4 Many of our customers simply don't have access to the conventional banking system and so their only sources of credit are payday lenders and loan sharks.
b. A sum on account, which a government or council is empowered by vote of a parliament, an electoral body, etc., to borrow and spend in exceptional circumstances in anticipation of the amount voted in the annual estimates. Also: the making available of such a sum; often in vote of credit.Votes of credit are not now a regular part of United Kingdom parliamentary procedure, nor is this sense current in North America.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit > of government
credit1693
1693 Price of Abdication 15 Though the Commons voted a Credit for borrowing 400000 l. for the present Payment of the Sea-men, and Victualling the Fleet, yet there was very lately but One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds advanced.
1716 Hist & Polit. Mercury June 272 We must likewise thankfully acknowledge the several Marks of Confidence you have placed in us, more particularly your seasonable and unprecedented Vote of Credit, which will remain a memorable Proof of your unbounded Zeal.
1780 London Chron. 24 Feb. 2/1 He proposed that a vote of credit should be passed for the sums demanded.
1810 Parl. Reg. III. 615 The lords commissioners..had declared the royal assent to the loan bill, the vote of credit bill,..and several private bills.
1854 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 135 598 I rise for the purpose of asking the Committee to agree to a Vote of 3,000,000l. in Supply, usually denominated a Vote of Credit.
1868 Special Laws State of Minnesota lxxxii. 366 If it shall appear upon the canvass of the votes of said cities that a majority of the qualified voters in either voting at such special elections, have voted in favor of the grants of credit and issue of bonds as aforesaid, then the city or common council of such city shall grant its credit and issue the bonds of the city therefor in conformity with this act.
1891 Northwestern Reporter 49 310/2 This Is a petition for mandamus to compel the county of Saginaw to allow the township of Thomastown a credit for $1.830.48 and interest, and to provide for the payment thereof.
1947 Standing Orders i. 13 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 6) XXI. 235 But such business shall not include any vote of credit or votes for supplementary or additional estimates for war expenditure.
1955 Bull. Atomic Sci. Feb. 72/3 The Swiss National Council (lower house of Parliament) voted a credit of $2,708,000 as the state's share in the construction of a nuclear pile.
1997 S. G. Deogaonkar Parl. Syst. in India iii. 116 In such a case, the House might grant the lump-sum money without details through a vote of credit passed by the House.
c. A sum of money lent to or placed at the disposal of a person by a bank, etc.; (also) an account with a company allowing delayed payment for goods or services. Now rare.
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1728 Husbandry & Trade Improv'd (ed. 2) IV. 145 He that will raise a credit in this bank, brings in a fund of any kind of goods or wares, which goods being appraised, the party immediately receives a credit according to the value set.
1802 I. Espinasse Rep. Cases Nisi Prius III. 238 McCarthy..applied for and prevailed on the plaintiff and his then partner to open a credit with their house, and to advance money, and accept bills on his account.
1838 O. Dewey Moral Views of Commerce iv. 106 We know that immediate payment is a check to expenditure. Why is it, but for this, that every petty dealer is anxious to open a credit with your family?
1915 Bull. Nat. Assoc. Credit Men 15 May 335 It was found that he enjoyed a credit with the firm here referred to.
1999 P. Sztompka Trust iv. 76 It may also bring other benefits conditional on trust, for example, getting employed, being promoted in a job, being accepted for marriage, obtaining a credit at the bank.
11. Reputation for solvency and probity in financial dealings, allowing money or goods to be taken or services to be used without immediate payment; the ability of a customer to obtain money, etc., on such a basis. See also on credit at Phrases 1.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > reputation of
credence?a1513
credit?1552
creditworthiness1832
credit standing1866
status enquiry1877
the three C's1885
?1552 V. Leigh Pleasaunt Playne & Pythye Pathewaye sig. A.iii He that by marchandise, wyll get hys lyuynge, Nedeth bothe good credit, and a stocke at the begynnynge.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 6 They..must keepe touch, in all their paie: With credit crackt, else for to liue.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 180 Try what my credite can in Venice doe. View more context for this quotation
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 10 Francis the first..left his credite sound with the merchants, and readie money to his sonne.
1673 W. Temple Let. to Duke Ormond in Wks. (1731) I. 124 For the Credit of the Exchequer..I fear it is irrecoverably lost by the last Breach with the Bankers.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. i. ix. 218 Nothing is of more Value to a Tradesman..than his Credit.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. iii. 27 Public credit is threatened with a new debt.
1824 Gambler's Scourge i, in Fatal Effects of Gambling 353 Thus he goes on, day after day, until his resources are exhausted; his credit gone, and his character blasted.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 4. It is of the last importance, not only for the credit of a country, but for the easier regulation of commercial transactions, that the metallic currency be kept up to the standard.
1884 Standard 20 Mar. 4/8 The state of Egyptian credit affects..the relations of our rulers to the situation on the Nile.
1904 Washington Post 12 Aug. 3 (advt.) Buy now. Pay later. Your credit is good.
1945 A. Wedberg tr. H. Kelsen Gen. Theory Law & State i. i. 24 He knows that if he carefully pays his debts his credit will increase; whereas if he does not pay his debts, he will lose his credit.
2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Aug. 16/2 Companies offering ‘credit repair’ services that erase bad credit by ‘borrowing’ someone else's more reputable history of paying his bills on time.
12. Accounting. An entry in an account recording money received, listed on the right-hand side or column; the record of receipts as a whole; the sum so listed. Also: the right-hand side or column of an account (abbreviated Cr.). Cf. earlier creditor n. 2.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column > sum entered on credit side
credit1638
creditor1660
book credit1721
plus side1900
1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce ccciii. 39 The sixth day al the Merchants residing upon the place, appear..with their Booke or Bilan, containing both their Debit and Credit, of both depts and Bils of Exchanges, and there addresse themselves to one another.
1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 209 Yo. Suppose a Man draw upon me at sight this Sum. Mr. Then make the Man Debit, and Cash Credit, because you pay the Mony presently.
a1715 A. Macghie Princ. Book-keeping (1718) iii. 45 As for the sundry Creditors, they get each of them Credit upon their several Accompts.
1737 Coll. Epigrams (new ed.) II. No. cccxcvi When first you stated human life's account, With pain we saw the articles amount... No credits on the discount side appear, But debits all to misery and fear.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 15/2 There are debits and credits between them in Bolaukee Doss's books to a great amount.
1820 I. Alger Pract. Book-keeper vi Before the Book-Keeper proceeds to the final balance of the Leger, the total sums of the debtor and creditor side, must be found equal, otherwise the books will not balance. To ascertain this equality of debit and credit, let him consider the following particulars in regard to each account: [etc.].
1868 R. G. C. Hamilton & J. Ball Book-keeping 17 He finds that the total of the debits exceeds the total of the credits by £10.
1882 Pennsylvania State Rep. 95 146 I had made advances to make up the difference between this sum and the credit in my account of $5109.10.
1908 B. Brackenbury Bookkeeping for Beginners ii. v. 99 So also are Bills Payable dealt with in the same way—when they fall due and are met at the Bank they must be entered in the credit of the Cash Book and posted to the debit of Bills Payable account in the Ledger.
1969 Changing Times Mar. 13/2 The [bank] statement normally lists the checks and other debits in one column, deposits and other credits in another column and the balance in a third.
2001 N. Dale et al. Object-oriented Data Structures using Java (2002) i. 9 A spreadsheet program used by an accountant models the books used to record debits and credits.
13. A note, bill, or other document on security of which a person may obtain funds.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun]
credit1662
paper1704
commercial paper1836
stamped paper1847
near money1936
near-cash1937
society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit
bootingc1300
allowancea1325
bank credit1653
credit1662
book credit1786
1662 A. Marvell Let. 1 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 249 Send us up a dormant credit for an hundred pound wch..we must haue ready at hand.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 350 A Letter..with a Credit for the Money.
1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 205 The testatrix gave..all her mortgages, bonds, specialties, and credits..to her nephew and niece.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. vii. 688 An Exchequer warrant authorizing the Bank of England to grant credits..for the specified sum.
1883 American 7 166 The ready use as credits of warehouse receipts and bills of lading.
1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 97 At the present moment the State Bank hardly grants any credits to private trade and industry.
2008 T. Hirai Keynes's Theoret. Devel. iii. 33 The balance of payments was equilibrated by the amount of gold reserves, suspensions of free payment in gold, and holdings of foreign credits and bills.
14.
a. In various informal or fictional contexts: a unit of currency. Later also: a unit used as a measure of a person's entitlement to use of a particular resource, service, product, etc.
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society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > other spec.
markc1475
bar1732
rix-dollar1803
Canadian dollar1841
centime1842
pound1857
cent1871
commodity dollar1891
credit1893
shilling1921
centime1942
larin1978
1893 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Oct. 486/1 Company scrip, or credits issued for services on the public buildings, canals, etc., forms the currency of the colony.
1937 E. E. Smith in Astounding Stories Dec. 68/2 Bid, one thousand credits per packet of ten. Offered, none at any price.
1962 H. B. Piper in Analog Sci. Fact & Sci. Fiction Dec. 122/2 Our currency is based on services to society. Our monetary unit is simply called a credit.
1999 C. Hill in J. Gay & J. Bell Hard Shoulder 57 The jukebox gave you twenty-seven credits for a quid.
2009 S. Zehr in T. Boyce & J. Lewis Climate Change & Media vii. 86 If one company successfully reduced emissions to a level below the cap, it would receive a credit it could then sell to another company that was having trouble reaching its goal.
b. (The balance of) prepaid money which a person has available for the use of a service, product, etc.
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1907 Official Gaz. U.S. Patent Office 16 Apr. 2711/1 In an electric prepayment mechanism, a..coin-controlled means for rendering said actuating means operative to open or close the switch at will while credit purchased by the insertion of one or more coins remains unconsumed.
1948 Jewell (Iowa) Record 23 Sept. 1/4 After placing coin in meters, autoists should be sure to turn the knob... If you fail to turn the knob, you do not get credit on the meter for your money.
1999 Electronics Weekly (Nexis) 11 Aug. 33 When the credit on these meters ran out, customers were left without power.
2010 J. McGregor Even Dogs (2011) ii. 35 There was no credit on his phone.
III. Other specialized senses.
15. Education.
a. Not in North American use.
(a) Officially recorded acknowledgement of merit in an examination as reflected in the marks awarded. pass with credit n. a distinction awarded in some examinations to examinees obtaining more than a certain percentage of the maximum marks.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > marks > specific marks
accessit1753
honour1774
credit1802
second class1810
firsta1830
first class1830
third class1844
Hons.1850
max1851
second1852
special mention1886
distinction?1890
A1892
E1892
pass mark1894
two-two1895
alpha1898
alpha plus1898
gamma1898
beta1902
delta1911
alpha minus1914
fourth1914
straight A1926
two-one1937
lower second1960
honourable mention2011
1802 Monthly Mag. June 411/1 No one can be admitted as a pupil in any of the ‘Schools for the Public Service’, until he has previously passed, with credit, an examination at the Polytechnic School.
1821 Christian Guardian Oct. 364/1 That a scholar, who had graduated with credit, and become a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, should defend the philosophy and vain deceit of a Swedish fanatic, is one of those events which history records with a sigh.
1886 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Elem. Educ. Acts 325/1 Three sums all right would get a ‘pass with credit’, and two right would probably pass the child.
1917 Regul. Oxf. & Cambr. Schools Exam. Board 49 Candidates who attain a sufficiently high standard in one or more of the subjects comprised in the several Divisions will be awarded a pass-with-credit in each of those subjects.
1963 J. R. Leggett Services Estate Agent 119 A pass with credit in the Oversea School Certificate Examination or a pass in a subsidiary subject of the Oversea Higher School Certificate Examination is accepted as equivalent to a pass at ordinary level.
2009 Herald-Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 41 Levy received a pass with credit to blue belt, and Miller-Wright passed with credit to brown-black stripe.
(b) = pass with credit n. at sense 15a(a).
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1944 Greece & Rome 13 66 The standard to be reached in Latin to gain a Credit should be no higher than that required in other subjects.
1949 Official Gaz. Kenya 15 Feb. 88/1 They must have passed the School Certificate with a credit in mathematics.
1963 H. C. Barnard & J. A. Lauwerys Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 72 Credit, a mark above the average standard in the now obsolete School Certificate Examination.
2000 Monitor (Kampala) 28 Apr. 33/2 (advt.) Holders of the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) with a credit in English and a certificate in Basic Registry Management, and at least three years of working experience.
b. Chiefly North American. Officially recorded acknowledgement of a student's completion of a unit of study or activity within a larger course, spec. one counting towards a degree, diploma, or similar qualification; a unit to be completed successfully within a course, degree, etc.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > marks > point or credit
credit1862
unit1894
point1903
1862 H. Barnard Mil. Schools & Courses Instr. in Sci. & Art of War i. 152 The sum of the credits, given for work of all kinds in a course of study, forms the maximum credit for the course.
1882 Michigan Argonaut 21 Oct. 23/1 The attention of the Faculty is again called to the injustice rendered in the present system of credits.
1904 E. G. Dexter Hist. Educ. U.S. 288 On the basis of ‘credits’, one credit representing a subject pursued daily..for one year in the secondary schools, forty-five credits is the usual requirement.
1959 H. Guerlac in M. Clagett Crit. Probl. Hist. Sci. (1969) viii. 235 Science in Western Civilization is a six-credit course, three credits a semester, running throughout the academic year.
2009 J. Chrysochoos Elusive Dreams xxiii. 156 He could take the final exam given in the required course of the chemistry program, and if he scored a C or better, he would get credit for the course.
16. Film, Broadcasting, Theatre, etc. An acknowledgement by name, with details of function or role, of each individual contributor (actor, producer, etc.) to a production, usually published in a programme or on the screen. Frequently in plural.Cf. credit line n., credit title n. at Compounds 2. closing credits, end credits, opening credits: see the first element; see also screen credit n. at screen n.1 Compounds 2a.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > credits
credit1919
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit list1958
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > credit
credit1919
credit title1922
opening credits1931
credit list1935
title sequence1936
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit line1984
1907 B. Matthews Inq. & Opinions xii. 285 His face is not familiar on the posters; and his name is not in large type on the playbill. All the credit he gets is contained in the single line which records that the play has been ‘produced’ by him.]
1919 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 19 Jan. 8/2 The audience does not remember screen credits the length of time that it takes to present them.
1937 H. G. Wells Brynhild v. 59 A fellow who had something to do with building the sets, committed suicide, simply..because he was mortified by not being given a credit—credits they call 'em—on the screen.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 100 In the early days [of wireless] there were advertisements, later commercial announcements, plain commercials or plugs, now often simply credits.
1958 Punch 1 Jan. 80/1 I am old enough to remember a time when a television play began with a title, a stream of credits and a splurge of mood music and then proceeded to discharge its burden of drama.
2010 Independent 21 Oct. (Viewspaper section) 18/1 I should have looked at the name on the credits first—Hannah Berryman, a director who has pulled the trick off before.
Phrases
P1. on (also upon) credit: without receiving or making immediate payment; in an agreement involving delayed payment; using borrowed money; also figurative. Cf. on tick at tick n.4 1.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [adverb] > on credit
to fristc1440
on (also upon, of) trust1509
on (also upon) credit1560
in, upon, on (the) score1568
on time1628
on or upon (the) tick1642
upon the tally1807
on the nod1882
on the slate1909
on the cuff1927
on the knocker1934
1560 in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 3 That frome hencefurth they be not compelled to tak on credite, they sall be everie moneth satisfeid of their wages, so that two Scotish lords, chosin by the counsell, may present it at weapon-showing and musters of the said men of warre.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) at Credite To take money vpon credit. Mutuas pecunias sumere.
1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 51 They fall into the bottomlesse troubles thereof, as, to buye, to sel, to exchaunge to retayle on creditte, yea, to beguile, rob, & deceiue.
1616 B. Jonson in W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. Ded. sig. A5v Or, like our Money-Brokers, take vp names On credit, and are cossen'd.
1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times vii. 118 Having taken their meate and lodging with him upon credite [they] had gone away without paying.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 2) I. Suppl. iii. 37 An exact entry of all goods sold out, and receiv'd in upon credit.
1775 M. Patten Day-book 22 Apr. in K. Miller et al. Irish Immigrants in Land of Canaan (2003) 552 I..got 4 bushell of Rie on credit and took it to Capt Moors mill and got it groand.
1781 S. Johnson Let. 14 Nov. (1992) III. 373 One or two whom I hardly know, I love upon credit.
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. 53 I sometimes raised the wind by..obtaining goods on credit.
1830 W. Scott Jrnl. 26 June (1946) 110 Scottish audiences, who are certainly not [apt] to give applause upon credit.
1872 R. B. Johnson Very Far West xiv. 191 There is the middle-class rustler, who starts a store..upon credit.
1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia v. 182 He could not get the spare parts on credit.
2008 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 6/3 A lot of people have been living the life of Riley on credit. They have been able to borrow at 0 per cent finance, and been able to take out new cards at will.
P2. to give credit to something: to believe, give credence to.See also to give credit at Phrases 4a.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > believe [verb (intransitive)]
weenc888
believea1225
aglea1325
to give credence toc1395
faithc1438
to add faith to?1483
to give credit to something1533
credit1557
to take (large etc.) stock in (rarely of)1870
1533To haue gevin na credit [see sense 3].
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Dii If ye wyll geue no credyte to it.
1611 E. India Co. Comm. 4 Apr. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) II. 982 Wee doe chardge you therefore..not to give light creditt to the faire speeches & pretences of any straungers, either English or others.
1707 Boston News-let. 16 June 2/2 We have a report here from the East end of Long Island..but we do not know what Credit to give it.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iv. xv. 211 The jury will rarely give credit to a stale complaint.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. xvi. 360 The motives by which a man may be urged to give credit to untrue facts.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) iii. 48 To give entire credit to whatever he shall state.
1913 H. Wagner With Victorious Bulgarians xi. 156 With all this it would be a pity to give credit to rumours, which have found many to listen to them, and which talk of failures of the division due to its commander.
1998 Jet 28 Sept. 12 Don't give credit to reports that conclude that taking 500-l,000mg of Vitamin C promotes chronic diseases.
P3. to give credit where credit is due and variants: to acknowledge merit or achievement when it is deserved, even if one is reluctant to do so.
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1805 Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 7 Nov. Perhaps the impartial and informed citizens who enjoy the blessings of a moderate and patriotic administration will give credit where credit is due.
1834 M. Floy Diary 17 Jan. (1941) 50 Loudon must be a man of taste..and disposed to give all credit where any credit is due.
1882 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 27 Sept. 3/3 He thought the Mayor fully intended to give credit where it was due.
1919 G. J. Nathan Comedians All 85 Well, credit where credit is due. Let us admit that here the distinguished Professor negotiates a real torpedo!
1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) ii. viii. 675 To give you credit where due, your scheme worked admirably. You duped me into doing exactly what you wanted.
2006 R. Ferrigno Prayers for Assassin (2008) xxvii. 206 Someone should teach Detective Colarusso that it's only fair to give credit where credit is due.
P4. Accounting uses (see sense 12).
a. to give credit: to make or record a deposit (with to an account or person, etc., or with indirect object, for a sum).See also to give a person credit for at sense 7c(a).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account
set1154
brevea1377
scorec1386
post1622
to give credit1725
journalize1766
to enter up1835
statement1984
1702 Minutes 24 Aug. 236 in Minute Bk. Men's Meeting Soc. of Friends in Bristol (1977) 204 This meeting orders Ch. Harford as Treasurer of our Workhouse to give the account credit for the same & imploy it among the stock of our Workhouse.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. ii. 26 And give credit in account current to Your humble Servant.
1763 G. G. Beekman Let. 28 Feb. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 432 I had Given Mr. Clarks account Credit for it, but as it was not Posted Omited to Credit the Company when I Charged the freight of his 4 Bales Goods etc.
1821 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 5 Mar. (1997) 1373 Having sold my limestone quarry (4. acres) to Abraham Hawley for 400.D...I give him credit for Meek's order.
1882 Accountant 21 Jan. 10/2 Mr. Cribb..obtained judgment by default for a sum of £1,153 13s. 10d., that being, as Messrs. Baker and Thorneycroft alleged, the whole amount advanced to Dunkley without giving credit for the sum of £200 paid by them to Mr. Cribb.
1913 Rep. Court of Appeals Maryland CXVIII. 426 It seems that some of the persons for whose benefit these orders were given gave credit to the account of Plant No. 1, for instance, the Basshor Company's account.
1958 Rotarian Aug. 46/1 ‘Can you pay $10,000?’ ‘If you give me credit for my last two years' commission which you owe me, I think that I can.’
2005 D. Warne & N. Elliott Banking Litigation (ed. 2) iii. 118 The bank had improperly ‘made away’ with the property so charged and therefore had to give credit for the amount of the deposits.
b. to enter (also put) to a person's credit: to record in a person's account as an amount received; also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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?1774 ‘Brutus’ & ‘H. Search’ Ess., Hist., Polit. & Moral II. xxix. 10 Several good laws have passed, and they must be put to his credit.
1794 R. Bell Cases Court of Session 1790–2 81 These bills were entered to his credit, and the time of payment also entered.
1807 Whole Proc. Trial Information against R. Henshaw 163 There were loans from Abbajie before that date, but not entered under that head; they were put to his credit, in the account-current between him and Mr Henshaw.
1823 Lett. Paul & Amicus 179 As a commentator, my opponent has a strong claim to originality—let us put it to his credit, to balance his want of consistency.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 163/1 The amount of each entry has been carried forward..to the credit of each payer.
1857 H. R. Helper Impending Crisis of South v. 256 Entered to her credit, many precious jewels of liberty remain in our possession, ready to be delivered when called for.
1908 Book-keeper Apr. 333/1 If a credit ticket is found for goods returned by Adams, this must be entered to his credit on the ledger, and billed as a separate entry.
1948 J. R. Weil & W. T. Brannon ‘Yellow Kid’ Weil ix. 102 When we had received the doctor's check for $275 we had a bookkeeper enter it to his credit.
1967 O. Stanley Guide to Taxation vii. 81 All your remuneration may not have been immediately payable, but may have been put to your credit to be drawn on retirement or death.
2001 G. Best Churchill (2006) xvi. 207 Although Churchill attributed this to the British people, their majority opinion attributed it to him. It was what he wanted and worked for, and the achievement may be put to his credit.
c. to be in credit: (of an account or account holder) to have a positive balance; to be in the black.
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1860 Irish Times 8 Dec. 4 The account had fluctuated greatly since it had been transferred from Mr. Rawlins to the executors—sometimes it was in credit, and sometimes it was in debt.
1927 Manch. Guardian 30 Aug. 11 This business..was successful, and by 1919 his capital account was in credit to the extent of £50,000.
1935 Thomasville (Georgia) Times-Enterprise 30 May 3/4 You haven't even got a business head, have you? Imagining that your account was in credit when it was overdrawn!
1997 Moneywise Apr. 103/1 If your bank bounces one of your cheques when your account is in credit you're entitled to compensation.
2010 S. Boyle Woman I was born to Be xxi. 202 Mary rang up the gas company and they said I'd paid so much I was in credit.
P5. letter of credit n.
1. Chiefly Diplomatic. = credential letter n. at credential adj. a.
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society > law > legal document > authenticating document > [noun] > document certifying bearer > letter of credence or commendation
letter of credence?a1400
letter testimonial1425
credential letter1433
letter of credit1552
commendatory letter or epistle1555
letter of commendation1555
testimonial1571
fiduciary1593
letter of reference1616
credential1656
creditive letter1662
creditive1670
reference1818
1552Letter of credit [see sense 2b].
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccc As you haue already sene the Emperours letters of credit, now wyll I declare what our commission is.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 2 a Hee gaue them a Letter of credite.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 137 He despatch'd him away in a frigat with letters of credit.
1729 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. Eccl. & Civil VIII. xvii. 453 The Duke..refused to give Ridolpho the Letters of Credit which he desired for the Courts of Rome and Madrid.
1774 Monthly Rev. Aug. 104 He..explains his disagreeing sentiments with that candour, which does him honour as a man; and as an author will serve as a letter of credit to every liberal and ingenuous mind.
1825 J. S. Buckingham Trav. among Arab Tribes xxviii. 581 Her ladyship expressed her own entire conviction of my really possessing the letter of credit presumed on, and of my being truly the person and the character which I professed to be.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lx. 55 (note) They complained that the ambassador had only a letter of recommendation in place of a letter of credit.
1902 Madame van Muyden tr. C. de Saussure Foreign View of Eng. xiv. 333 He was expecting letters of credit from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, whose ambassador he was expected to become.
1992 I. Friedman Question of Palestine (new ed.) Introd. p. xv The delegation..was armed with a letter of credit from Palmerston and left for the East.
2. A letter or document, esp. one issued by a bank or other financial organization, authorizing a named person to draw money to a specified amount from the issuer's agents or business associates in another place; also figurative. Similarly bill of credit, †ticket of credit.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents
precept1473
bill of credit1616
letter of credit1616
security1712
shop note1720
paper credit1725
shop-ticket1777
credit letter1843
circular note1850
book1863
1616 B. Jonson Mercurie Vindicated in Wks. I. 1005 I am their bill of credit still, that passes for their victuals and house-roome.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 105 The partie to whom these Letters of Credit were directed.
a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 345 Your Lordship..must..send into Italy a Bill of Credit for so much money as may defray his charge into England.
1657 S. Lambe Seasonable Observ. 13 In any place that hath no Banke where they carry any Commodityes and sell them for ready money, how easily may they carry back the same money for a returne, and put it into their own Banke, and with a Ticket of credit there buy other Goods at home or abroad by exchange.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 11 Having one son at Venice, one at Noremberge, one at Hamburgh, and one at Dantzick, where Banks are, I desire four Tickets of Credit, each of them for a Thousand pounds.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 408 I tooke up 90 Crounes for the rest of my journey with letters of Credit for Venice.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 52/1 Had the Government been so settled..The Massachuset Bills of Credit had been like the Bank Bills of Venice.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxvii. 315 Furnished with money and bills of credit.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxxiv. 209 She then gave him a letter of credit upon Mons. Laborde, and wished him a good morning.
1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. xiii. 137 Give me my horse, or I shall lose the best case was ever entrusted to a lawyer—a gold watch worth forty pounds—bills of exchange—letters of credit—and a purse of guineas.
1871 Law Rep. in Bankers' Mag. (N.Y.) Apr. 738 The next day he received from the same Bank $200,000 more of like certificates, and paid for them at the same rate in currency and a ticket of credit by the Merchants' Bank in favor of the National Bank for $175,000.
1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 27 Apr. (1988) I. 448 For safety, you get the Letter of Credit for a much larger sum than you expect to need.
1998 Harvard Law Rev. 111 1425 These small projects included the commissioners' service in signing bills of credit.
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a. General attributive (in branch II.), as credit facility, credit protection, etc. Recorded earliest in credit side n. at Compounds 2.
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1652 W. Bagwell & J. Brockedon Full Discov. Foul Concealment 14 The ballance due from the said Committee &c. to the Common-wealth by this Accompt the 25 of March 1644 carried to the credit side of the said Common-wealth in fol. 15. is—4873—2—0.
1711 W. Pittis Hist. Present Parl. 342 All and every Person or Persons..shall for every Hundred Pounds have a Credit Share or Interest.
1816 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 22 Oct. As the subscriber wishes to avoid an extensive credit business, he has marked his goods low in order to make it an object with purchasers to deal for Cash.
1900 Financial Times 11 July 5/6 The Eastern banks will doubtless be willing to afford every credit facility for the renewal of these bills.
1950 Billboard 16 Sept. 46/2 The order requires retailers to keep records of each credit transaction.
1974 A. Lindbeck Swedish Econ. Policy vii. 123 A flexible credit market would automatically transfer increased saving into credit supply.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Jan. (Business section) 2/4 Under this plan, insurance premiums would be refunded to buyers of credit protection from the entity that wrote the initial contract.
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credit balance n.
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1818 B. Sheys Amer. Book-keeper 44 Credit Balance by Stock, for my net property, 20000.
1942 C. S. Lewis Screwtape Lett. ii. 18 He still believes he has run up a very favourable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted.
2010 New Scientist 20 Feb. 20/2 It is USSD that allows pay-as-you-go customers to find out their credit balance.
credit customer n.
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1826 Times 14 Sept. 2/3 It was the want of the credit customers that kept the general market distressed.
1913 J. E. Hagerty Mercantile Credit i. vii. 128 Credit customers of banks are more willing to submit property statements than are customers of mercantile houses.
2010 Atlanta Jrnl.-Const. (Nexis) 24 Apr. 13 a As I pay down balances on credit cards, my credit is cut back to where my balance now resides, effectively rendering me a debtor, not a credit customer.
credit check n.
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1957 Pop. Mechanics Apr. 65/1 (advt.) No credit check. We are not a loan company.
1996 Big Issue 15 July 12/1 Pawning your goods..is a quick and easy way of borrowing small amounts of money, with no questions asked and no potentially awkward and embarrassing credit checks.
credit entry n.
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1809 Ld. Clancarty Let. 26 Oct. in Rep. Commissioners Ireland (1810) X. App. p. cxx I see in the Accountant General's weekly check for the week ending 16th October 1809, the credit entry given for the sum of £.437. 7. 8. actually paid.
1906 E. O. Lyte Pract. Book-keeping i. 9 The debit entries of a personal account show what is owed by the person for whom the account is rendered; the credit entries show what is due to him from the person rendering the account.
1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) vi. 101 Every purchase you make from your supplier is a credit entry for him or her in your purchases ledger.
credit history n.
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1911 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 29 Oct. A man's credit history is filed on card index system which is up to the highest degree of perfection.
2007 Independent 17 Mar. (Save & Spend section) 6/4 If you or a family member are having problems getting access to banking services—because of problems with your credit history, say—credit unions may have the answer.
credit item n.
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1831 L. Preston Treat. Book-keeping ii. 175 The total amount of credit items is $200, shown by simple equation to average due Jan'y 15th.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. §64 The banker..allows for any credit-items.
1999 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 7 Nov. 19 You will be able to see the tax credit listed on your pay slip. It will appear as a credit item at the bottom of the form after deductions for things like pensions or National Insurance.
credit limit n.
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1846 Bell's New Weekly Messenger 20 Dec. 1/5 A bank may fix a credit limit as a sort of general guide for its officers.
1925 University Jrnl. of Business 3 173 Financial standards can be developed for various classes of customers and used in setting and enforcing credit limits.
2010 C. Balish & G. Williams Living Well with Bad Credit ix. 172 I had planned to pay cash for the meal because I knew my Visa card was pretty close to being over the credit limit.
credit report n.
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1897 Textile Amer. 21 Aug. 9/1 The first credit report was the word-of-mouth statement of one merchant to another concerning his experience with a given applicant for credit.
1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 i. 24 This balance of power could be achieved if retailers' claims for debt are abolished, leaving repossession or an adverse credit report as the sanctions against non-payment.
2005 J. Musselman & P. Fletcher Hip Girl's Handbk. Working World iii. 50 You should also request a copy of your credit report before beginning your job hunt.
credit system n.
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1756 Crit. Rev. Dec. 443 He [sc. M. Postlethwayt] affirms, that the land-tax being rendered equal, would, at four shillings in the pound, produce, at least, a million per annum more than it does at present, which upon his ready money or short-credit system of dealing by the government, would amount to more than a quarter part of the whole supplies which may be wanted.]
1796 tr. I. Kant in Monthly Rev. 20 App. 486 A machine by which state acts against state, a credit-system [Ger. Creditsystem] with debt infinitely increasing, and secured against immediate demand.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. liv. 176 They..saw that the credit system leads to almost incessant litigation.
1944 E. W. Kemmerer Gold & Gold Standard ii. 49 There were many significant developments in the nation's banking and credit systems, notably those centering in the Peal Act of 1844.
2011 G. McCormack Secured Credit & Harmonisation of Law iii. 57 Gaps or weaknesses in collateral-based credit systems hinder financial and economic development.
credit ticket n.
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1802 Scots Mag. Sept. 781/2 Charged with..robbing him of 15s. and some lead credit-tickets issued by the Verreville Glasswork Company, which tickets were found upon Clayton when apprehen[d]ed.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iii. 82 Bankers always furnish to their customers printed forms, called ‘credit tickets,’ which are divided into different heads, and should be filled up and taken to the bank with the cheques.
1996 E. M. A. Kwaw Law & Pract. Offshore Banking & Finance ii. 26 This message is then sent to the CHIPS central computer which causes debit and credit tickets to be printed at the terminals of National Bank.
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credit account n. (a) the part of a financial account where money received is recorded (also figurative); cf. credit side n.; (b) an account with a financial institution for the borrowing of money; (also) an account with a firm, shop, etc., to which goods and services may be charged on credit; cf. charge account n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column
debitor1483
creditor1543
creditrice1588
contra1648
credit side1652
credit account1701
debtor1712
money column1738
red ink1917
1701 John Ball, Appellant. Nathaniel Ridler, Respondent. Appellant's Case. (single sheet) He plac'd the Rents of these Lands to the Credit Account of John Wood's Estate.
1771 Middlesex Jrnl. 29 Oct. Their cash account was carried down no farther than March last, but their credit account was carried down to August.
1829 Age 25 Oct. 342/2 Among the items carried to the credit account of the last quarterly return of the revenue, was a sum of £120,121 received..for the purchase of the City Canal.
1848 Bankers' Mag. Oct. 235 They opened a credit account with a house in London to the extent of £200,000.
1935 E. M. Butler Tyranny of Greece over Germany iv. 122 All this must be placed to the credit account of the relationship.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 Mar. 1 Sears has 26 million credit accounts.
1989 D. Semenko Looking Out Number One xiv. 133 He even had us sign for an American Express Gold Card and a prime-line credit account with the Bank of B.C.
2012 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 Aug. She had..committed fraud by running up debts on credit accounts after the couple's recent break-up.
credit agency n. (a) an organization that manages or provides credit or loans; (b) an organization that provides credit ratings, credit scores, etc.; a credit reference agency.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > a (type of) loan-society
loan-society1835
credit union1843
credit agency1861
Fannie Mae1948
Ginnie Mae1968
Sallie Mae1970
Freddie Mac1971
1861 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 122/2 There is indeed at present some talk..of founding a sort of general credit-agency for the associated bodies, which should undertake the management and securing of loans to them.
1899 Amer. Lumberman 21 Oct. 15/2 The Lumberman has been at the pains to go carefully through the rating book of a credit agency devoted to the lumber business.
1950 Changing Times June 14/1 Before you can obtain credit in a new community, the credit bureau will buy a complete report on you from a credit agency in the town in which you lived.
1981 R. H. Bates Markets & States in Trop. Afr. 58 Low-ranking members of a credit agency in Ghana furnish persuasive if impressionistic evidence of the role of privilege in securing subsidized credit.
1990 Times 29 Mar. 25/2 Standard and Poors, the credit agency, upped the rating of the society's long-term loans to AA.
2010 M. J. Arata Identity Theft for Dummies v. 75 You must dispute the inaccurate information with the credit agency from which the lender received your credit report.
credit bureau n. chiefly U.S. an office or company which collects information relating to the creditworthiness of potential borrowers or consumers and makes it available to banks, finance companies, etc.; = credit reference agency n.In quot. 1877 with reference to a business's own credit assessment of potential customers.
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1877 Metal Worker 20 Jan. 26/1 When the stove trade was prosperous, it was on a cash basis. Gradually they have been drawn into giving 30, 60 and 90 days... He did not know that a credit bureau was the best way to cure the evil.
1950 Changing Times June 13/2 The credit bureau's investigators will find out how you handled that account.
2006 L. Cortés & K. P. Mueller How to fix your Credit i. 5 The credit bureau will open an investigation, which will probably include contacting the lender.
credit crisis n. a sudden sharp reduction in the availability of money or credit from banks and other lenders; (also) a period characterized by this; = credit crunch n.
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1857 Athenæum 26 Dec. 1608/1 The Bank Act and the Credit Crisis of 1857.
1922 T. H. Boggs Internat. Trade Balance in Theory & Pract. 162 During the fiscal year 1907-8 there resulted a net debit against India. It was attributed to a famine in India, a credit crisis in the United States, and other unfavorable conditions.
1960 New Scientist 14 Jan. 76/2 There has been no great credit crisis since the second World War.
2008 Independent 7 Apr. 39/1 The numbers show that the good times on the AIM market have come to an end, with a combination of the credit crisis and turmoil in the equity markets kyboshing new listings.
credit crunch n. a severe reduction in lending by banks and other financial institutions, typically as a result of widespread (or anticipated) defaulting on loans, mortgages, etc.; (also) a period characterized by this.
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1966 Los Angeles Times 12 Dec. c12/6 Our credit authorities were caught napping last January. They did not correctly visualize the credit crunch that lay ahead.
1974 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 56 1065/2 Concern is developing in the financial arena about the possibility of another credit crunch.
1990 N.Y. Mag. 19 Nov. 43/1 With the credit crunch, many American companies are approaching foreign banks for loans.
2008 Centre Daily Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. a1 The shutdown of inter-bank lending has caused a global credit crunch that threatens to trigger a worldwide recession.
credit default swap n. Finance a swap (see swap n. Additions) in which the buyer makes a series of payments to the seller in return for the promise of a payment from the seller if there is a default (typically a default on the repayment of a loan or the redemption of a bond); abbreviated CDS.In the event of a default, the loan becomes the property of the seller of the swap.
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1995 Amer. Banker 26 Jan. 22/3 Other benefits of a credit default swap include customized maturities and less use of the balance sheet.
2001 Business Week 12 Nov. 108/1 Investors have something else to worry about: credit default swaps, known as CDSs for short. That's financial marketspeak for insurance on bonds and bank loans.
2010 Guardian 21 May 27/2 Germany's ban on naked short-selling of credit default swaps on sovereign debt has not prevented the country's biggest bank continuing the practice out of its London hub.
credit derivative n. Finance a derivative (derivative adj. and n. Additions) in which the risk that loan repayments will not be made in a timely manner is sold to a party other than the lender.An important example of a credit derivative is a credit default swap.
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1992 National Mortgage News 10 Feb. 6/4 The rating process does not adequately advise investors about the possibilities from ‘credit derivatives or B pieces’.
1992 IDD (Investment Dealers' Digest) 6 July 13/2 About six months ago, two managing directors..formed a separate group known as ‘credit derivatives’ within the sprawling outfit.
1997 Accountancy Apr. 164/2 (advt.) Working with asset swaps and credit derivatives you will provide value-added analysis and tactical support in this varied, challenging role.
2009 Private Eye 6 Mar. 1/3 The bank's London office was a dab-hand at collateralised debt obligations, structured credit derivatives and other toxic products.
credit draper n. [compare draper n. 2] a person who sells goods on credit, esp. from door to door (now somewhat dated).
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > draper
Scotchman1685
credit draper1857
pack-draper1880
1857 Times 23 Apr. 3/1 (advt.) Credit Drapers' Provident Society... A copy of the rules will be forwarded to every house known in the credit drapery trade.
1877 Cassell's Family Mag. Nov. 631/1 By trade a tally-man, or, as he styled himself, a credit-draper.
1914 E. A. Parry Law & Poor ii. 23 If he were to..preach the iniquity of imprisonment for debt straight from the shoulder—as I am sure Elisha would have done—the respectable credit draper, the pious grocer, and all the noble army of tally-men would get up in their pews and walk out of his church or chapel in disgust.
2000 Evening Standard (Nexis) 3 Oct. 29 She had no income, except for the one pound 10 shillings a week she earned as a credit draper's shop assistant while my father paid the rent.
credit event n. Finance an event relating to the credit of a business or institution; spec. a default, repudiation, or other event that is defined in a credit derivative as sufficient to trigger its implementation.
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1918 J. L. Laughlin Credit of Nations iv. 167 The Bank of France did not publish its accounts until February 4, 1915. Nothing was..gained by this reticency, because the credit events in the omitted months were inevitably disclosed by the later developments.
1932 Availability Bank Credit (National Industr. Conf. Board) i. 39 The record of bank credit events following 1929, as reflected in the changing features of bank assets, resulted at first in no great change from the previous era.
1967 Financial Analysts Jrnl. 23 95/1 The extreme Keynesian position..has been so clearly refuted by the monetary and credit events of 1966 and 1967 that [etc.].
1989 Jrnl. Finance 44 927 All bonds' histories were followed until December 31, 1988 for credit events including defaults, bankruptcies, exchanges, calls, repurchases, debt-equity swaps, mergers, and puts by holders.
1991 Corporate Cashflow Oct. 19/2 The biggest exposure, experts say, is for companies planning an HLT or other adverse credit event.
2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Nov. (Business section) 8/3 Investors buy a note issued by a special-purpose vehicle that contains a credit default swap... The holder of the note is responsible for losses in a so-called credit event, like a default.
credit insurance n. (a) insurance against bad debts; (b) = payment protection insurance n. at payment n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > other types of insurance
reassurance1702
reinsurance1705
fire insurance1721
marine insurance1787
credit insurance1818
self-insurance1829
guarantee fund1848
industrial assurance1850
industrial insurance1853
fidelity guarantee1880
title insurance1882
open cover1884
rain check1884
co-insurance1889
franchise1895
health insurance1901
casualty insurance1902
travel insurance1912
fidelity insurance1930
medigap1966
fidelity bond1970
1818 B. Sheys Amer. Book-keeper iii. 106 (table) Credit Insurance, by William Martin, 840.
1883 Banker's Mag. Feb. 562 Many depositors and stockholders in the certifying banks are entirely unaware how their officers have transformed them into credit-insurance societies.
1925 Daily Tel. 13 May 4/4 A good deal of attention has been drawn during the past year to what is known as credit insurance.
1962 Changing Times Sept. 46/2 Buy credit insurance if you finance any large purchase... That will pay off an instalment debt in case of death before repayment.
2001 E. Malmsten et al. Boo Hoo (2002) viii. 190 When Kajsa had started booking ads.., she had been told that we would have to pay for everything in advance unless we found someone to give us credit insurance.
2007 J. D. Scurlock Maxed Out 83 What Mitchell eventually discovered was a massive scheme to sell mobile home owners credit insurance they never needed or asked for.
credit letter n. = letter of credit n. 2 at Phrases 5.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents
precept1473
bill of credit1616
letter of credit1616
security1712
shop note1720
paper credit1725
shop-ticket1777
credit letter1843
circular note1850
book1863
1843 Let. in Banker's Mag. (1846) Nov. 89 The bank that will have to pay the money will in most cases be advised of it having been placed to their credit by the time the party to whom the credit letter is sent applies for it.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 22 Your credit letter is good anywhere you need supplies.
2007 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 13 Nov. 36 At the last minute, Vantone—which had earlier blown a prospective lease at Larry Silverstein's 7 World Trade Center when it failed to post a letter of credit—reneged on a credit letter.
credit line n. a printed or on-screen acknowledgement of a person or organization involved in creating the item being presented.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > credit
credit1919
credit title1922
opening credits1931
credit list1935
title sequence1936
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit line1984
1888 Writer Feb. 34/2 Most of the magazines furnish advance sheets to the newspapers containing the poems to appear in the succeeding number of the magazine in order that they may be used with the credit line, ‘Alice May Jones in January Scribbler's’.
1911 Green Bk. Album Oct. 802/1 The stage producer is a more or less mysterious individual, humanized in the public mind only through the medium of the little ‘credit’ line in the program of the piece he has staged.
1914 Writer's Mag. Feb. 44/2 The Photoplaywright should have equal prominence in credit line with the staff writer of the new story.
1934 H. N. Rose Thes. Slang vii. 50/2 Line below a picture giving the name of the photographer, the credit line.
1962 Guardian 15 Feb. 6/4 The talks producers..do not get credit lines [in the Radio Times] for their work.
1984 S. Hoppmann-Lowenthal tr. L. Lowenthal in L. Lowenthal Lit. & Mass Culture 238 The worthiness and uniqueness of each individual involved in the making of a film finds expression in the film's credit lines.
2006 B. M. Thomsen Awful Truths 80 (heading) The creation of Batman was not a solo project, no matter what the credit line says.
credit list n. (a) a list in a financial account where money received is recorded; cf. credit side n. (now rare); (b) Film, Broadcasting, and Theatre a list of the participants in a production.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > credit
credit1919
credit title1922
opening credits1931
credit list1935
title sequence1936
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit line1984
society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > credits
credit1919
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit list1958
1841 N.Y. Herald 1 May This was the debit side. On the credit list stood six boys at $300 per annum.
1905 J. A. Lyons Wholesale Accounting 28 Leave a few lines between the debit and credit items and head the credit list ‘Credit’.
1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day iii. 61 Studs yawned without reading the credit list or cast of characters, and slumped in his seat ready to let the picture afford him an interesting good time.
1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 53 Credit list, the list of acknowledgements of indebtedness to firms who have lent articles of furniture, electrical gear, draperies, etc., to dress the stage. Credits, the credit list.
1958 New Statesman 12 July 47/1 This superb piece of radio..is ‘by’ Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker; but one would like to give a long credit-list of all involved in it.
2007 M. Simon Storyboards (ed. 3) iii. li. 267/1 Many television shows don't have enough time to run a full credit list, so most storyboard artists don't see their names onscreen.
credit man n. U.S. (a) a man who buys on credit (now rare); (b) a (male) clerk who has charge of the credit accounts in a business.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts > other accountants
Accountant General1621
actuary1772
chartered accountant1855
liquidator1858
costs clerk1860
cost clerk1861
cost-keeper1865
credit man1878
cost accountant1892
preparer1960
creative accountant1973
1837 Monthly Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer 1 May 78/1 Present appearances indicate that the bubble..is about to burst and leave the credit men with ruined fortunes, and in most cases with ruined characters.
1876 Metal Worker 4 Mar. 3/1 The credit man may be ruined in one night.
1878 Amer. Biogr. Hist.: Michigan 64 Mr. Bancroft, the credit man of that house, after scanning the features of the young merchant, said: ‘How much credit do you want?’
1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 377/3 Big order comes in from Jones & Co. Everybody pleased—except that office kill-joy, the credit man.
2010 Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 24 Sept. d6 Philomena obtained a job as a legal secretary with the Textile Banking Company in New York City where she met Joseph Vollaro, a credit man.
credit note n. a document expressing the indebtedness of the issuing body to the recipient; spec. (a) a receipt given by a shop to a customer who has returned goods, which can be offset against future purchases; (b) a confirmation of credit to a customer's account issued by a supplier, typically when invoiced goods are returned, or found to be faulty.
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1800 J. W. Fulton British-Indian Book-keeping (new ed.) i. iii. 53 (table) Credit Notes Payable for Mine, at 3 and 4 months.
1838 Times 13 Nov. 1/5 The circulation of ‘credit notes’ (billets de credit) or promissory paper bearing interest, and after date, was also progressing.
1931 D. Mackail Square Circle xi. 376 It was delightful enough when her new bankers sent her a credit note for nearly three hundred pounds.
1981 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 15 Feb. 4 Finally, after lengthy transactions with assistants and managers, she was given a credit note for the amount.
1996 D. Mills et al. Foundations Accounting (ed. 9) (2000) ii. 33 A credit note is issued by the supplier to the purchaser to indicate an agreed reduction in the amount owing... A credit note often looks similar to an invoice..but is often printed in red to avoid confusion.
credit reference agency n. chiefly British a company which collects information relating to the creditworthiness of potential borrowers or consumers and makes it available to banks, finance companies, etc.; cf. credit bureau n.
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1941 Washington Post 2 Aug. 15/2 Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., credit reference agency known the world around, today began its 101st year of business.
1973 Guardian 23 Aug. 13/1 Chesterfield also happens to be the home of one of the most recently formed credit reference agencies.
1989 Which? July 317/3 Credit reference agencies don't keep ‘blacklists’, and they don't make judgements on your creditworthiness.
2005 S. Collard & E. Kempson Affordable Credit iii. 21/1 Mainstream lenders often supplement credit scoring with information held by the credit reference agencies.
credit sale n. a sale or method of purchase on the basis of delayed payment, the total cost of the goods usually being paid off within a stipulated time.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > fact of being sold > for cash or credit
realization1753
cash-sale1808
credit sale1822
1822 Ann. Law Reg. U.S. 4 949 On process of foreclosure, if the money upon a mortgage be not paid at a day limited in the decree, the estate mortgaged may be sold; and for ready money, unless the plaintiff consent to a credit sale.
1891 A. L. Perry Princ. Polit. Econ. iv. 273 As involving both time and trust, the credit sale must in the nature of things be followed by another sale of one of the three kinds.
1958 Which? 1 iii. 8/1 The credit sale system has grown fast in recent years... Goods bought on credit sale belong to the buyer as soon as the first payment is made.
1965 Spectator 8 Jan. 52/3 A finance house specialising in motor trade loans is offering credit sale instead of h.p.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 3 Accounts receivable turnover is calculated by dividing the average amount of receivables into annual credit sales.
credit score n. (a) a record or account of the debt incurred by an individual as a result of purchasing goods, etc., on credit (cf. score n. 10) (now rare); (b) a numerical score representing the perceived creditworthiness of a potential borrower, customer, etc., based on an analysis of their credit history and current financial circumstances.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > reputation of > assessment of
credit score1855
credit rating1871
1855 F. C. Adams Our World xxi. 264 To make the expenses, ye comes into a place like ours, and runs up a credit score.
1900 All Ireland Rev. 1 7/2 They left the long credit scores and our mill behind them, shunning the place as if a plague were on it, and paying no attention to the bills.
1976 Washington Post 2 Mar. d12/2 Customer stability—More than 25 per cent of your credit score. You get points for owning a house.
2011 S. Orman Money Class 44 If they emerge from college with a solid credit score, it is more likely they will be able to qualify for a credit card that doesn't charge outrageous fees.
credit scoring n. the process or practice of generating a credit score (credit score n. (b)); frequently attributive.
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1961 Chicago Daily Defender 8 June 4 The new credit-scoring system will materially curtail bad debt losses and increase net profits.
1986 Guardian 25 Jan. 25/1 Credit scoring officially became an acceptable method of assessing whether or not a customer should be granted a loan when the Office of Fair Trading gave it the all clear 14 months ago.
2010 H. Davies Financial Crisis xxiv. 133 There will be borrowers whose employment, financial and family circumstances do not fit comfortably into standard credit scoring models, but who are nonetheless entitled to credit.
credit sequence n. (also credits sequence) Film and Television the opening or closing section of a film or television programme during which the list of credits is shown; cf. sense 16.
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1940 N.Y. Amsterdam News 20 Jan. (City ed.) 3/3 After all the credit sequences had been finished and right in the middle of the musical prologue, suddenly there was quiet.
1990 Financial Times 24 May 23/6 The movie bounds on into this dimension from its giddy, aerial credits sequence (the camera roaring over snowy mountains).
2010 L. Badley Lars von Trier 99 Selma's body thudded through the trap, followed by silence until the credit sequence rolled, followed by a standing ovation.
credit side n. the right-hand column of a financial account, where credits are recorded; also figurative and in figurative contexts, esp. in on the credit side; cf. earlier creditor side n. at creditor n. Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column
debitor1483
creditor1543
creditrice1588
contra1648
credit side1652
credit account1701
debtor1712
money column1738
red ink1917
1652Credit side [see Compounds 1a].
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 77 Let this stand as a Direction from the Experience of the most miserable of all Conditions in this World, that we may always find in it something to comfort our selves from, and to set, in the Description of Good and Evil, on the Credit Side of the Accompt.
1783 F. Fowke Let. 12 Nov. in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1786) I. 63 On the credit side of the account, betwixt the Honourable Company and Rajah Myhipnarain, your Honourable Board will release him of two lacks, two hundred thirteen rupees, eleven annas, three pice, placed to the Rajah's credit.
1859 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee I. i. 22 Having thus paid his character off, on the credit side, he proceeds, with rather more alacrity, to debit to the full with all the damnation..bestowed upon it by Shields, Wodrow,..and Lord Macaulay.
1892 Sc. Leader 8 Jan. 2 The borrowings still appear on the credit side.
1935 Discovery May 154/1 On the credit side..he [sc. Bergson] lays the main stress on the historical, biological, and evolutionary standpoint in discussing both moral and religious questions.
1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. i. iv. 73 The credit side of one debtor's account had been over-added by £10 prior to the derivation of the closing balance.
credit squeeze n. the restriction of financial credit through banks, etc., as a fiscal policy; a period of such restriction.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit > restriction of
credit squeeze1920
window operation1961
window guidance1964
1920 Boston Sunday Globe 5 Sept. 54/2 On all sides in investment quarters the belief was expressed this week that the threatened credit squeeze this Autumn had been averted.
1955 Times 18 July 15/1 As early as last February I applied a little of the curb—what is sometimes called the credit squeeze.
1962 P. F. Wendt Housing Policy (1963) iii. 43 They greatly extended their mortgages on house property to meet the demand, largely from their policyholders, during the credit squeeze in 1955-57.
2010 Sun (Nexis) 2 Aug. 2 Wannabe homeowners are feeling the brunt of a new credit squeeze, with banks set to slash the number of mortgage approvals by a Quarter.
credit-squeeze v. transitive and intransitive to restrict the availability of financial credit (to).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > restrict credit
to put (also keep) the screw (also screws) on1659
credit-squeeze1943
1932 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune-Times 21 July 4/4 They sought some measure of deflation but I have never doubted that the money kings didn't realize then what they had started by their program of currency and credit squeezing.]
1943 Life 4 Jan. 64 A disappointed farmer himself, he truly represented the poverty-stricken, credit-squeezed farmers against the financial interests of the North.
1957 Britannica Bk. of Year 511/2 A verb-form to credit-squeeze, to restrict investment or speculation by reducing financial credits.
2010 Observer (Nexis) 20 June (Business) 47 All the comment last week was about Murdoch's bids to recover sole charge of the Sky he relinquished when News Corp got credit-squeezed two decades ago.
credit standing n. the status of a person, firm, etc., with regard to their suitability for receiving financial credit.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > reputation of
credence?a1513
credit?1552
creditworthiness1832
credit standing1866
status enquiry1877
the three C's1885
1866 N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 3/4 (advt.) They have now in press..a new and greatly improved reference book indicating the capital and general credit standing of nearly every merchant, trader and manufacturer in the United States.
1948 H. C. Larsen & N. W. Johnson Managing Farm Finances 33 A person with a good credit standing may be able to borrow from regular lenders as cheaply for consumption purposes as for production.
2012 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 25 June 25 Pertamina, the Indonesian national energy company, landed in financial difficulties that threatened the credit standing of the young republic.
credit title n. Film and Television an on-screen acknowledgement of a participant in a film or programme, esp. in its production and technical aspects.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > credit
credit1919
credit title1922
opening credits1931
credit list1935
title sequence1936
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit line1984
1922 L. E. Taylor in Opportunities in Motion Picture Industry (Photoplay Res. Soc.) 65 First, the main titles, which include the producer's mark of manufacture, as well as the credit title, in which credit is given to the director, the author and others directly responsible for the production.
1933 C. Winchester World Film Encycl. 481/1 Credit titles, the names on the screen of the technicians responsible for the scenario, sound, art direction etc.
1955 ‘G. Carr’ Corpse at Camp Two ii. 23 On D.-G.P.'s ‘credit’ titles he appeared as ‘Dem Nixon’, which..was his professional name as a film cameraman.
2004 R. Koszarski Fort Lee (2005) ix. 151/3 Some directors gained further credit by having added to the main title something like ‘A George Fitzmaurice Production’ as well as retaining the usual credit title, the last before the picture started, of ‘Directed by George Fitzmaurice’.
credit union n. a cooperative association providing loans to its members at low interest rates in return for the use of their pooled savings.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > a (type of) loan-society
loan-society1835
credit union1843
credit agency1861
Fannie Mae1948
Ginnie Mae1968
Sallie Mae1970
Freddie Mac1971
1843 Patriot 31 Aug. 613/2 The laws on the subject of mortgages, of division of land, and of the credit unions [in Saxony], now as general as they are acknowledged to be useful, will largely contribute to secure and improve the prospects of the proprietors of real estate.
1869 Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 433 All State-helped associations would naturally enter into a mutual credit-union, as well as into an insurance union against occasional losses.
1881 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 207/1 The credit-unions, founded and managed by a warm-hearted humanitarian for the purpose of elevating the moral and material welfare of entire classes of society.
1945 Christian Cent. 8 Aug. 916/3 ‘The finest credit union in the United States,’ is how Roy F. Bergengren..describes the Light of Tyrrell credit union at Columbia, N.C.
1983 Times 30 July 13/1 Credit unions are well established in North America, New Zealand and Northern Ireland, but in England and Wales they have started to take strong root only since the passage of the Credit Unions Act 1979.
2008 Independent 22 Dec. 26/3 Bolstering credit unions seems a sensible way to get third parties involved in lending to the most needy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
creditv.
/ˈkrɛdɪt/, U.S. /ˈkrɛdət/ I. Business and Finance.
1. transitive. To trust or allow to take money or goods, or to use services, without immediate payment; to supply (a person) on credit. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. sense 5. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (transitive)] > give credit to or for > give (person) credit
allow1396
credit1541
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 15 Strangers..vsed to credit and truste the poore inhabitauntes..which..had not redy money.
1542 T. Becon Newes out of Heauen sig. C.iiiv I coulde not at this present bestowe ye smale talent, that God hath credited and lent vnto me, better & more aptely.
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 347v And in case theyr marchaundices wolde not extende to the value of so muche pepper, he promysed to credite them to theyr nexte returne.
1574 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 354 No man will credit or truste a banckerowte.
c1635 Begger-boy of North (single sheet) I am not in debt, there's good reason therefore, for no man will credit me with halfe a shilling.
1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 64 My Lord..was credited by the Citizens for as many Goods as he was pleased to have.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 163 Persons, who..are industrious Men, and can be credited.
1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. viii. 51 That ready Money from a Tobacconist's Wife is equal to the Honour of crediting a Duchess.
1842 A. Lincoln in Sangamo Jrnl. (Springfield, Illinois) 26 Mar. 1/5 ‘Better lay down that spade you're stealing, Paddy,—if you don't you'll pay for it at the day of judgment.’ ‘By the powers, if ye'll credit me so long, I'll take another, jist.’
1892 Proc. Mississippi Bar Assoc. 1896 47 Eight, or ten, or fifteen creditors of Max Kahn..credited him for goods sold with a large margin for possible losses.
1921 Texas Criminal Rep. 87 273 Reynolds told him that he had gotten $135 worth of supplies already, and that he would refuse to credit him further until that was paid.
2. transitive. to credit out: to sell, lend, or let out on credit; also in figurative contexts. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (transitive)] > give credit to or for > give credit for (goods)
to credit out1595
tick1842
strap1862
to mark up1899
1595 ‘J. Dando’ & ‘H. Runt’ Maroccus Extaticus 5 Not to credit out his wares to anie man.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 29 How faithfully..doth she [sc. the earth] repay with vsury that which was lent and credited out vnto her!
1817 T. Lewis Let. 30 Oct. in Lett. Arthur W. Machen (1917) i. 18 The merchants here are not in the habit of crediting out their goods to any considerable amount unless it be to very punctual customers.
1858 C. Wise Rep. 30 Mar. in Accts. & Papers (House of Commons) (1859) 34 165 Money and goods sufficient to purchase the intended number had been credited out to the Chiefs on the coast, who had failed in their engagements.
1904 Folk-lore 15 456 Never credit out the first thing you sell in the morning for it gives you bad luck.
3. Accounting.
a. transitive. To enter a credit in (an account) or in the account of (a person, etc.). With for, with an amount.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > place to credit
allow1396
credit1682
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 237 A wise Creditor will..presently upon the Receipt thereof, credit his account of Goods, and debit his account currant for the Value.
1739 R. Hayes Negociator's Mag. (ed. 4) xxxv. 173 A Remitter, or Drawer, for Account of a third Person, should also give punctual Advice to the Party for whose Account it is drawn, or remitted, adding thereto the Price, and for how much he has debited or credited his Account.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 373 A universal bank, wherein accounts are regularly kept, and every man debited or credited for the least farthing he takes out or brings in.
1796 Rep. Cases King's Bench VI. 141 Caldwell and Co. on the same day that the check was paid in by the plaintiff credited his account with the amount thereof.
1868 R. G. C. Hamilton & J. Ball Book-keeping 4 To enter on the Cr. side..[is called] to credit the account.
1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 565 Entries were made..crediting Stoney with 1630l. and Armitage with 800l.
1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 3 Nov. (1993) III. 68 I have heard from Thorpe; the books have arrived & he has credited me with 12/- which is quite good.
1956 Billboard 10 Nov. 157/1 We set up an account for the location with the bank, crediting the account with the location's commissions from gross collections.
2004 J. Stroman et al. Admin. Assistant's & Secretary's Handbk. (ed. 2) v. xxxvii. 509 Make sure the bank has credited the account for the same amount that you have listed in the company checkbook.
b. transitive. To enter on or carry to the credit side of an account; to transfer to or deposit in an account. With to an account holder or account.
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1710 London Gaz. No. 4706/2 The Ballance..has been duly credited to the Publick.
1792 in Trial T. Hardy for HighTreason (1794) I. 210 Each member shall pay to the secretary of his division one penny per week, or one shilling and a penny per quarter; which shall be credited to the account of such member in a book to be kept for that purpose.
1826 Law Jrnl. 4 31/1 A distinct account of the rents and outgoings was entered in the bankrupts' books,..stating on the credit side, the rents received, and on the debit side, the outgoings and the annuity from time to time credited to the Pictons.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 110 Of this nett income, a part..must be credited to our second division of the endowment fund, as an outlay on education.
1900 Munsey's Mag. (N.Y.) Oct. 69/1 Their object is to make their clients ‘pyramid’ their purchase—that is, buy more stock with the profits credited to them.
1960 Official Gaz. (Kenya) 10 May 589 The figure of interest credited to contributors in the Income and Expenditure Account differs from the figure for the corresponding item in the Contributions and Withdrawals Account by Sh 1/28.
2008 J. O. Everett et al. Contemp. Tax Pract. ¶8005.01 Thor [Power Tools] credited this sum to its inventory contra account, thereby..decreasing taxable income for the year by that amount.
c. transitive. To offset (a sum of money) against an amount of money owed or due; (now) esp. to offset (a sum of money paid) against a tax liability.
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1819 R. Peters Rep. Circuit Court U.S.: 3rd Circuit I. 240 The marshal had made the most express promise, that the money paid by them, should be credited against their bond.
1889 Insurance Law Jrnl. Nov. 856 It was agreed by an oral agreement that any insurance money which should be received by Barnhart should be credited against the amount due him.
1921 G. Clarke Post Office of India & its Story vii. 76 Rent in India is usually in arrears and, whenever a tenant pays money to a zemindar (landholder), the latter can credit it against any portion of the arrears.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 75 per cent of contributions to political parties up to $100 can be credited against tax demands.
1987 Orange Coast Mag. July 46/1 It is the deposit check (which will be credited against the cost of your meal) that separates you from the armchair traveler.
1996 J. L. Nolan et al. Philippines Business 275/1 The tax withheld may be credited against tax due on the return.
2009 B. Cochrane Coventry Wedding iii. 42 When Sam tried to give her money, she told him to credit it against what she'd owe him for the tow.
II. General senses.† 5. To entrust (a thing or person) to a person, or (a person) with something. Cf. sense 1.
4. † b. intransitive. To give credence to. Obsolete. rare.
a. To accept as true or truthful, give credence to, believe (a person, statement, source of evidence, etc.).
(a) transitive. With simple object or object clause. Now chiefly British colloquial and in negative and interrogative contexts.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > accept as true, believe [verb (transitive)]
ylevec888
leve971
ween971
i-weneOE
takec1175
trowc1175
truth?c1250
thinka1275
believec1300
trustc1325
hold1340
trist1340
to give (one's) faith to (also unto)c1405
accept?c1430
admitc1449
credencea1529
to take a person at his (also her) word1535
credit1547
faith1576
to take a person's word1576
receive1581
creed1596
understand1751
Adam and Eve1925
buy1926
1547 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 6 June (1933) 291 Such an excellent judgement as the Kings Majestie is like to have will never credit us in it.
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Lviv God..graunt vs all to learne loue credyte and maynteyne hys truth.
1567 Triall of Treasure sig. Div Credite not those..that talke that and this.
1581 T. Lupton 2nd Pt. Too Good to be True sig. B.iijv Credite not your eyes herein.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) ii. 210 To Saway we got next night, a Towne both great and fruitfull; but that it is the ruine of old Tygranocerta..I shall never credit.
1676 E. Stillingfleet in J. Tillotson Rule of Faith (ed. 2) App. 56 One of Mr. White's, adversaries, (if himself may be credited ) plainly told him, if the doctrine of the Popes infallibility were not true, yet it ought to be defended because it was for the interest of the Church of Rome.
1715 C. Bullock Woman's Revenge i. 14 Fair One, credit my plain Sincerity, I will be grateful in what way you please, take me to your Embraces.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 I..am content to credit my senses.
1781 Metempsychosis 31 In about three days, My Lord expired, and, would you credit it, he animates the self-same Quadruped.
1817 E. Baines Hist. Wars French Revol. II. iv. x. 122/2 They were obliged to credit the evidence they had heard, even against the honour of a prince.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 644 The report of William's death was..credited.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iii. 26 If we may credit Theophanes.
1914 K. T. Norris Saturday's Child ii. ii. 209 Her look expressed the stunned amazement of one who cannot credit her ears.
1960 C. C. Gillispie Edge of Objectivity iv. 145 Like many later rationalists, he could not credit the Trinity.
1993 A. Habens in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 248 For the life of her, Nurse Nancy cannot credit how Olive has been sat there all night with a search party scouring the house and grounds.
2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xviii. 296 Seems in the Cotswolds that's thought of as delicate—would you credit it?
(b) transitive. With object and infinitive. Often of something positive or commendable (cf. sense 6b).
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1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vii. 355 The thinges, whiche neither haue been donne, nor once were meant to be donne, yet maie be easily bothe hearde, and credited to be true.
1582 A. Munday Eng. Romayne Lyfe ii. 13 They receiuing them with great account, both of the Popes fauoure, as also the holines they credited to consist in the Candles, went euery one to lay them vp in their Chambers.
1657 Sir T. Browne Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd 54 Achates is of so many various kindes that it will scarce be credited to be one stone.
1661 G. Whitehead Son of Perdition Revealed viii. 46 He hath brought you a story for the proof of it which we believe he credits to be true.
1768 Monthly Rev. Jan. 78 He has told us what is generally credited to be a true representation of our political situation.
1800 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. Parl. IV. 361 His Lordship instanced the conspiracies which had existed in Ireland,..which were not at first credited to have existence by those who thought themselves well informed.
1873 ‘C. Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer xvii. 119 Pythagoras might have credited him to have belonged, at some previous stage of his existence, to a member of the corvine tribe.
1914 Yale Sheffield Monthly Nov. 63 Upperclassmen are credited to know what their classmates' activities are.
1948 Billboard 26 June 54/3 He remained with Sells-Floto thru 1924, during which time..he engineered what is credited to be the first radio time given to a circus.
1998 R. L. Hatcher Patterns of Love (2008) 292 Karl is more man than you credit him to be, I think.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > believe [verb (intransitive)]
weenc888
believea1225
aglea1325
to give credence toc1395
faithc1438
to add faith to?1483
to give credit to something1533
credit1557
to take (large etc.) stock in (rarely of)1870
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 216v/2 Crediting..to such hie doctrine.
a. transitive. With to (also unto) a person. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > commit to care or custody of another
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recommendc1405
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in charge (of)1548
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to farm out1786
confide1861
fide1863
doorstep1945
to foster out1960
1559 Bp. Scot Speech in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. App. vii. 18 Contynue in those thinges which thou hast learned, and which be credited unto thee.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 93 This office [sc. Sergeant Maior] was credited vnto none.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 203 That the smaller free holds should be of too high esteem to be credited to such conveyances.
1662 J. Gauden Let. 26 Mar. in C. Wordsworth Documentary Suppl. (1825) 34 It seems a good omen..that my concernes should bee credited to soe generous a brest.
b. transitive. With with something. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > commit to care or custody of another > invest (a person) with care or custody
trust?1517
credit1581
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compromit1590
concredit1658
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha ii. iii. 297 That hee which is put in truste with the reste of the Recordes, should be credited with the custodie of the Commission.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. C1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) More then once I haue been credited with tenn times the valew of that at your handes.
1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. E2v Whom your especial trust and fauour hath credited and graced with this imployment.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. li. 198 If I can get some good family to credit me with a sister or a daughter..I will..marry.
6. To give credit to or for.
a. transitive. With to (also less commonly indirect object). To attribute or ascribe (esp. something positive or commendable) to a person; to give a person credit for (an achievement); to identify a person or thing as the agent responsible for or the source of; Sport to award (a victory, etc.) to a person or team.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > assign as properly relating to
ascribe1382
titlec1425
adscribe1534
credit1563
arrogate1584
to give a person credit for1641
1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye sig. ci Neyther anye meruaile is it, the rule of all is credyted him, who both through his owne prowesse, and the long continued commendacion of his auncestours, hath earned the report and estimation of al men.
1810 C. Comstock Ess. Duty Parents & Children Pref. p. vii But he lays no claim to their excellencies; these he wishes to have credited to the great Head of the church; to him they belong.
1827 Christian Telescope 2 June 110/1 The complaint was not because we gave no credit for the article, but because we credited it to the ‘N. Star’, the paper in which we found it.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table vii. 183 Some excellent remarks were made on immortality, but mainly borrowed from and credited to Plato.
1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iii. 52 All catches, hit wickets, and stumps out are credited to the bowler as wickets taken.
1879 H. George Progress & Poverty ii. ii. 114 The famines of India [etc.]..can no more be credited to over-population than the famines of sparsely populated Brazil.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 4/1 Of the few nippy retorts that lent zest to the contest, one..is credited to Sir Robert Cranston.
1940 H. M. Lydenburg tr. A. Blum Origins Painting & Engraving ii. ii. 130 This is what is called polytypage, a..practice credited by Didot to the printers of books of hours.
1973 N. M. Nayar in E. W. Caspari Adv. in Genetics XVII. 166 He gave a photograph (credited to Kikkawa, 1912, and taken in Cochin China) of two persons in a boat harvesting wild rice.
2004 M. Hartley Christy Mathewson vii. 96 The league credited him the win.
2010 New Yorker 20 Sept. 91/3 Unlike music prodigies, or math prodigies, fashion prodigies—at least, the public recognition of them—is a recent phenomenon, and it can be credited to the Internet.
b. transitive. With with. To give (a person) credit for something; to attribute a quality or achievement to; to acknowledge as the source of or the agent responsible for something.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 520 This is vnderstood of such as boast in good earnest of their coldnesse and insensibilitie, and would be credited with a serious countenance.
1737 Z. Grey Impartial Exam. 2nd Vol. Daniel Neal's Hist. Puritans (new ed.) ii. 105 The World had little Reason to credit him with all these Pretences, as apears from Dr. Nalson's Account of his soliciting the King for the Deanery of Canterbury.
1790 Monthly Rev. Aug. 421 Sterne was credited with profundity, till the public were profoundly tired with the investigation of his hidden meanings.
1838 Amer. Silk Grower & Farmer's Mag. Nov. 110/2 There does not appear to be harmony of opinion,..whether John Fust, John Mantel, John Guttemburg or John Koster, should be credited with the paternity of this important discovery.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. iii. 27 To credit him with a desire to reform the Church.
1920 N. Hapgood Advancing Hour ii. 35 We are to credit England with his [sc. Bertrand Russell's] return, after his imprisonment, to Cambridge University.
1970 Baseball Digest Apr. 20/2 Some years ago,..a batter was credited with a sacrifice if his fly advanced a runner to second or third.
2009 K. T. Grant & G. B. Estes Darwin in Galápagos i. i. 34 Stephen credited Darwin with collecting over 30 different insect species.
c. transitive. With for. In the same sense. Also: to praise for a particular reason.
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1795 R. Cumberland Henry IV. xii. iv. 229 He views your character in its best and fairest light: a soft side perhaps towards the tender passion he may credit you for.
1836 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 13 Feb. 90/1 I shall propose a few questions for insertion in your Mechanics' Magazine and Farmer, giving your readers leave to credit me for as great ignorance as they please.
1869 Monthly Relig. Mag. May 414 When he was a mortal, I credited him for affection, beyond what he ever uttered.
1920 Boys' Life Nov. 26/3 The coyote will fight in defense of his home, often showing more courage than he is credited for having.
1994 Guitarist Sept. 9/2 Apologies go to David Venni, who was understandably miffed at not being credited for the pictures of The Night Of 100 Guitars used in last month's issue.
2003 D. Gaines Misfit's Manifesto vi. 129 I also credit him for turning me into a lifelong noisehead.
2007 Independent 26 Nov. 14/2 The Forgiveness Project was also credited for its work with prisoners to tackle offending behaviour.
d. transitive. Without construction. In Film, Broadcasting, Theatre, etc.: to include the name of among the credits.
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1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxiii. 102 The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been. View more context for this quotation
1886 Theatre 20 Sept. 1/1 All articles appearing in The Theatre are written especially for it unless credited otherwise.
1946 Hollywood Q. 1 320/1 The work may be published, mechanically reproduced, or recorded in a film soundtrack without listing or crediting authorship anywhere.
1954 Billboard 9 Oct. 22/3 Malcontented writers claimed that when a writer of stature was involved, such as Johnny Mercer on the rewrite of ‘Glow Worm’, ASCAP credited him, whereas lesser writers are still waiting for their performance credits.
1977 Zigzag Apr. 10/1 Can you tell me who these people are that you've credited on the sleeve of your first solo album?
2000 K. Courrier & S. Green Law & Order (ed. 2) xx. 310 Cinematographer Constantine Makris is credited at the beginning of the show for the first time.
2006 M. Kinne Fathers of Infl. 28 The director said people always thought his movies made God real to them. Cecil credited his parents' influence.
e. transitive. With as. To acknowledge as having a particular status or role, or as producing a particular effect or result. Frequently in passive.
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1890 Hist. Counties McKean, Elk, & Forest, Pennsylvania xiv. 918 Kingsley township may be credited as the birthplace of the classic Tionesta.
1899 Land Mag. June 470 The mistaken or misdirected efforts in the way of education will, I think, be credited as the real cause by few deep-thinking men.
1957 E. H. Hudson in F. R. G. Heaf Symp. of Tuberculosis vii. 381 Stuertz of Cologne is credited as the first to perform phrenicectomy as a therapeutic measure in the treatment of bronchiectosis of the lower lobe of the lung in 1911.
1992 Economist (Electronic ed.) 27 June 70 The Cole quotation comes from the book still credited as the last best attempt to answer that question.
2010 D. A. Rothery Planets: Very Short Introd. iv. 106 This caused a global environmental upheaval that is widely credited as the cause of a ‘mass extinction event’ when about 75% of species of life on Earth were wiped out.
7. transitive. To bring into good repute or estimation; to reflect credit on, do credit to. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > gain credit by [verb (transitive)] > do credit or bring honour to
to do (one's) honour toa1450
grace1578
credita1594
to do grace to1597
praisea1633
to do credit to1679
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a1594 Edmund Ironside v. in Anglistica (1965) 14 128 I mean to credit thee By being captain-general.
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 43 They seeke..to credit their owne Colledge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 93 I call them forth to credit her. View more context for this quotation
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 198 That my Actions might credit my Profession.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 242 Smatterers in science..neither instruct the company, nor credit themselves.
1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 52. 411 That sanctity of morals, under which the marriage state is sure to be credited and promoted.
1880 World 26 May Some will burst into leaf, and credit the care and attention of the husbandman.
1902 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. May 278 The object is to offer..a word of thanks to Professor Felter who has so ably served us all and so highly credited himself.
1964 Listener 21 May 839/3 Governments are more likely to be discredited or credited (if I may revive a neglected use of this positive), through the gossip of civil servants in the Inner Circle of London.
8. transitive. To secure belief or credit for; to show to be credible or true. Cf. accredit v. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] > of something
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1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) ii. sig. E4 Our next endeauor is..to credit that [report] with all the countenance wee can.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. C4 If a Writer endevours, by delivering new..Observations or Experiments, to credit his Opinions.
1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Antediluvian Concerning all the objects which he saw, [he] must have been a long time in suspence, might even have died, without having credited his own opinions.
1892 G. Plattenburg in Missouri Christian Lect. 123 Kuenen 's statement grants that the scientific method can be maintained only by discrediting the New Testament. If credited, the theory is ‘worthless’.
1945 H. A. Larrabee Reliable Knowl. iv. 199 [The testability of a hypothesis] depends upon whether or not deductions can be made from it in such a way that it can be definitely credited or discredited by observational tests.
2009 D. R. Reid Daniel Boone & Others on Kentucky Frontier i. 49 Rumor-based stories can only be accepted as hints and possibilities and analyzed against all other possible explanations, but even then they cannot always be fully credited or discredited.
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ˈcredited adj.
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1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie f. 7 Let them conceale things credited [L. ille tegat commissa], to God oft let theim praye.]
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 133v I haue seen..a kind of Fagot, whose age and painting, approueth the credited tradition, that it was carefully preserued by those noble men.
a1699 W. Temple Some Thoughts Rev. Ess. Antient & Mod. Learning in Miscellanea: 3rd Pt. (1701) 229 I might further relate from the most credited Authors, those long and stupendious Defences, that were made at Tyre.
1774 F. Bernard Answer to Complaint in Select Lett. Trade & Govt. Amer. 106 It would have been an inexcusable neglect of duty in the Respondent, not to have informed the Secretary of State of a credited report of so interesting a nature.
1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 436 History and romance—the credited truth and the credited probable—stand pretty nearly in the same relation to certitude.
1949 T. Roscoe U.S. Submarine Operations World War II ii. x. 108/2 [Commander] Dempsey put two out of four torpedoes into an AP for the credited sinking of an ‘unknown maru’.
2008 Atlanta Jrnl.-Const. (Nexis) 25 Aug. 6 b Mr. Crane, 90, the last living male actor who had a credited role in the movie, died of complications from diabetes Thursday.
ˈcrediting n. and adj.
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1554 ‘Eusebius Pamphilus’ in tr. M. Luther Faithful Admon. True Pastor & Prophete (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A.iiiv To call to remembrans how good god is yet vnto them, to call them styll to the credyting of the godlye preachers doctryne.
1653 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James i. 21 There is an act of faith, the crediting and believing faculty is stirred up.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxxiv. 301 For the better crediting whereof, they..wrote their Letters.
1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse ii. i. 29 Oct. I assure you, gentlemen, you may credit what I say. 1st. Off. Don't tell me of crediting; I have a warrant, and must enquire.
1839 Merchants' Mag. July 72 The crediting party, when a copartner is acting out of the copartnership line, must inquire of the other copartners if the act be sanctioned.
1868 Christian Ambassador 1 1 In every case where the heart is constrained to harmonize with the ways of God, the crediting faculty finds little or no difficulty in regarding the records of the Bible as authentic.
1922 V. Ross Hist. Canad. Bank of Commerce II. App. 534 The same voucher was used by a crediting branch as an advice of an amount credited to another branch and by the receiving branch as a debit to the crediting branch.
1991 Oxf. Econ. Papers 43 280 Mayer (1986) argues—in the context of the UK imputation system—that an interior solution..could result from imperfections in the crediting of personal income tax withheld on dividends.
2007 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 1 Apr. a1 He hopes to work out a crediting agreement where the state would cover the costs from Proposition 1E funds, then collect a credit on a future flood control project.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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