credo
/ˈkriːdəʊ
/ /ˈkreɪdəʊ/noun (plural credos)
1A statement of the beliefs or aims which guide someone’s actions: he announced his credo in his first editorial...
- When does less than full belief in a professed credo become actionable fraud if one is soliciting gifts or legacies?
- Their mission statements read like political manifestos rather than educational credos.
- Your credo can guide you, but you cannot magically make it your mother's guiding principle as well.
1.1 (Credo) A creed of the Christian Church in Latin.There, he advises that someone should recite the Credo continuously for a dying person, which was the customary practice of his fellow friars....
- The Mass omits the Credo and takes as its central point, the Holy Eucharist as narrated in the story of Christ's meeting with the disciples on the road to Emmaus.
- Moreover, in the same paragraph, he describes the Credo as the central ‘confession of faith’ when he surely means ‘profession of faith’.
1.2 (Credo) A musical setting of the Nicene Creed, typically as part of a mass: the Credo of Bach’s B minor Mass...
- It includes mass movements (all Glorias or Credos), motets, and a variety of secular songs in French and Italian.
- As with the old Missa Brevis, so too nowadays it's not strictly necessary to set the Credo to fresh music.
- The first note, F, sung by the tenor in bars 1 and 2, in this instance personifying the final note of the chanson's tenor, prefigures the opening F of the cantus firmus in bar 15 of the Credo.
Origin
Middle English: Latin, 'I believe'. Compare with creed.
Rhymes
- well, I'm (or I'll be) buggered
- well-improved
- well in
- well-inclined
- well I never! (or well I never did!)
- well informed
- wellington
- Wellington, 1st Duke of
- Wellington apple
- wellington boot
- wellingtonia
- Wellingtonian
- well-inhabited
- wellink
- well-instituted
- well-instructed
- well-integrated
- well-intended
- well intentioned
- well-invented
- wellish
- wellish-off
- well-joined
- well-jointed
- well judged