Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to creed
Participle: creeded
Gerund: creeding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | creed |
| you | creed |
| he;she;it | creeds |
| we | creed |
| you | creed |
| they | creed |
Perfect
| I | have creeded |
| you | have creeded |
| he;she;it | has creeded |
| we | have creeded |
| you | have creeded |
| they | have creeded |
Past
| I | creeded |
| you | creeded |
| he;she;it | creeded |
| we | creeded |
| you | creeded |
| they | creeded |
Pluperfect
| I | had creeded |
| you | had creeded |
| he;she;it | had creeded |
| we | had creeded |
| you | had creeded |
| they | had creeded |
Future
| I | will creed |
| you | will creed |
| he;she;it | will creed |
| we | will creed |
| you | will creed |
| they | will creed |
Future Perfect
| I | will have creeded |
| you | will have creeded |
| he;she;it | will have creeded |
| we | will have creeded |
| you | will have creeded |
| they | will have creeded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | creed |
| you | creed |
| he;she;it | creed |
| we | creed |
| you | creed |
| they | creed |
Perfect
| I | have creeded |
| you | have creeded |
| he;she;it | have creeded |
| we | have creeded |
| you | have creeded |
| they | have creeded |
Imperfect
| I | creeded |
| you | creeded |
| he;she;it | creeded |
| we | creeded |
| you | creeded |
| they | creeded |
Pluperfect
| I | had creeded |
| you | had creeded |
| he;she;it | had creeded |
| we | had creeded |
| you | had creeded |
| they | had creeded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would creed |
| you | would creed |
| he;she;it | would creed |
| we | would creed |
| you | would creed |
| they | would creed |
Perfect
| I | would have creeded |
| you | would have creeded |
| he;she;it | would have creeded |
| we | would have creeded |
| you | would have creeded |
| they | would have creeded |
Imperative
| you | creed |
| we | Let's creed |
| you | creed |
Verbs conjugated like 'creed'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'creed'
breed,
creel,
creep,
greed,
reed,
screed,
acceed,
aread,
bleed,
bread,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
creda "article or statement of Christian belief," from L.
credo "I believe," perhaps from PIE
*kerd-dhe- "to believe," lit. "heart to put" (cf. O.Ir.
cretim, Ir.
creidim, Welsh
credu, Skt.
crad-dadhami). The first word of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, broadening 17c. to mean "any statement of belief."
2. From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“to believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱréd-dʰeh₁-ti (“to trust, believe”, literally “to place one's heart”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish creitid (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śráddadhāti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”). See: Latin '
crēdō', Old Irish '
creitid'.
Sample Sentences
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Only this I marvelled, and other men have since, whenas I, in a ſubject ſo new to this age, and ſo hazardous to pleaſe, concealed not my name, why this author, defending that part which is ſo creeded by the people, would conceal his. [1645 March 4, J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Ansvver against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Wherein the Trivial Author of that Answer is Discover’d, the Licencer Conferr’d with, and the Opinion which They Traduce Defended, [London]: [Printed by Matthew Simmons?], →OCLC; republished in The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now More Correctly Printed from the Originals, than in Any Former Edition, and may Passages Restored, which have been hitherto Omitted. To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings [by Thomas Birch]. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, 1753, →OCLC, page 326:]
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And ſo, no doubt, were his other Preferments as acceptable, which did require ſuch Athanaſsian Subſcriptions, &c. and which he in an Athanaſian Form ſubſcrib'd, creeded, and worſhip'd for till his dying-day. [1731, Simon Scriblerus [pseudonym], Whistoneutes: Or, Remarks on Mr. Whiston’s Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke, &c., London: Printed for T. Warner, at th Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, page 42:]
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'I was n't for creeding me awn e'en,' believing my own eyes. [[1873, John Harland, “Creed”, in A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire (Series C (Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Editions); 4), London: Published for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 45:]
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The poor like Priests—Priests utilise the poor; / High Church the common people feeding / Exclaims—"You Low Church indolents observe / How we go about leavening and creeding!" [1872, “The Survivor” [pseudonym; Walter Rowton], “Part the Fourth”, in Hal and I. In Four Parts, London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 122:]
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Especially in the studies of religions less creeded than Christianity scholars have long insisted on the importance in religion of sacred stories. [1977, Peter Slater, “Religion as Story: The Biography of Norman Bethune”, in Peter Slater, editor, Religion and Culture in Canada = Religion et Culture au Canada, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, →ISBN, page 290:]