v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Accrediting. ] [ F. accréditer; à (L. ad) + crédit credit. See Credit. ] 1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. [ 1913 Webster ]

His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in. [ 1913 Webster ]

The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. [ 1913 Webster ]

To accredit (one)
with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the chemist Blöde. ] (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. crédit (cf. It. credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of credere to trust, loan, believe. See Creed. ] 1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit unto them, nor received them. 1 Macc. x. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation. [ 1913 Webster ]

John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Com.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Bookkeeping) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bank credit, or
Cash credit. See under Cash. --
Bill of credit. See under Bill. --
Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to several different correspondents, or when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several different places, it is called a circular letter of credit. --
Public credit. (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the ability or readiness of a government to fulfill its pecuniary engagements. (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who owe largely in a community. [ 1913 Webster ]

He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall they credit
A poor unlearned virgin? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of. [ 1913 Webster ]

You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Worthy of belief. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gentleman was born of creditable parents. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable; as, such conduct is highly creditable to him. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He settled him in a good creditable way of living. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being creditable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. crédit credit & foncier relating to land, landed. ] A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. crédit credit & mobilier personal, pertaining to personal property. ] A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. cr&unr_;diteur. See Credit. ] 1. One who credits, believes, or trusts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The easy creditors of novelties. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creditors have better memories than debtors. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. creditrix. ] A female creditor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having an acceptable credit rating; worthy of having credit extended; as, a credit-worthy customer.
Syn. -- responsible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. deditio, fr. dedere to give away, surrender; de- + dare to give. ] The act of yielding; surrender. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. discrédit. ] 1. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. Rogers.

Syn. -- Disesteem; disrepute; dishonor; disgrace; ignominy; scandal; disbelief; distrust. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Discrediting. ] [ Cf. F. discréditer. ] 1. To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. [ 1913 Webster ]

An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adj. 1. being brought into disrepute; as, a discredited politician.
Syn. -- damaged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. suffering shame.
Syn. -- disgraced, dishonored, shamed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having been shown to be incorrect; as, a discredited theory or policy. [ PJC ]

n. One who discredits. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing. ] [ F. éditer, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time. ] To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. improved or corrected by critical editing.
Syn. -- emended. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F. édition. See Edit. ] 1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] See Luxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An editor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., that which produces, from edere to publish: cf. F. éditeur. ] One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication. [ PJC ]

2. to insert personal opinions into an article or statement that is supposed to be an objective statement of facts. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female editor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ LL. aedituatus, p. p. of aedituare, fr. L. aedituus a temple warden; aedes building, temple + tueri to guard. ] To guard as a churchwarden does. [ Obs. ] J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

. An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ LL. exhereditare, exhereditatum, disinherit. ] A disinheriting; disherison. [ R. ] E. Waterhouse.
Syn. -- exheredation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ LL. expeditatus, p. p. of expeditare to expeditate; ex out + pes, pedis, foot. ] (Eng. Forest Laws) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer. See also declaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. expeditus, p. p. of expedire to free one caught by the foot, to extricate, set free, bring forward, make ready; ex out + pes, prdis, t. See Foot. ] 1. Free of impediment; unimpeded. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nimble and expedite . . . in its operation. Tollotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expedited p. pr. & vb. n. Expediting ] 1. To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

To expedite your glorious march. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such charters be expedited of course. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In expedite manner; expeditiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being expedite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition. ] 1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. [ 1913 Webster ]

With winged expedition [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift as the lightning glance. &unr_; [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Putting it straight in expedition. &unr_; [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who goes upon an expedition. [ R ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.

Syn. -- Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See Prompt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. expéditif. ] Performing with speed. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. foeditas, fr. foedus foul, filthy. ] Turpitude; vileness. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An investigation searching for evidence of wrongdoing, with no credible evidence of such wrongdoing available at the outset of the investigation, and often without specifying in advance the wrongdoing to be proven. [ metaphorical ] [ PJC ]

n. State of being hereditable. Brydges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. hereditabilis, fr. hereditare to inherit, fr. L. hereditas heirship inheritance, heres heir: cf. OF. hereditable. See Heir, and cf. Heritable. ] 1. Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By inheritance. W. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. hereditamentum. See Hereditable. ] (Law) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is not in itself visible or tangible, being an hereditary right, interest, or obligation, as duty to pay rent, or a right of way. [ 1913 Webster ]