Credited

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Credit \Cred"it\ (kr[e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Credited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crediting}.]
     1. To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put
        trust in; to believe.
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              How shall they credit
              A poor unlearned virgin?              --Shak.
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     2. To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise
        the estimation of.
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              You credit the church as much by your government as
              you did the school formerly by your wit. --South.
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     3. (Bookkeeping) To enter upon the credit side of an account;
        to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set
        to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest
        paid on a bond.
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     {To credit with}, to give credit for; to assign as justly due
        to any one.
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              Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any
              others to be credited with the clear enunciation of
              this doctrine.                        --Newman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  credited
       adj : (usually followed by `to') given credit for; "an invention
             credited to Edison" [syn: {credited(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "credited":
     accepted, accountable, accredited, alleged, ascribable, assignable,
     attributable, attributed, believed, charged, derivable from,
     derivational, derivative, due, explicable, imputable, imputed,
     of good credit, owing, putative, received, referable, referred to,
     traceable, trusted, uncontested, undisputed, undoubted,
     unquestioned, unsuspected, well-rated