credit

/ˈkre-dit/

Middle French, from Old Italian credito, from Latin creditum something entrusted to another, loan, from neuter of creditus, past participle of credere to believe, entrust

noun

  1. reliance on the truth or reality of something

  2. the balance in a person's favor in an account

  3. an amount or sum placed at a person's disposal by a bank

gave credit to everything he said

belief faith credence credit mean assent to the truth of something offered for acceptance. belief may or may not imply certitude in the believer. faith almost always implies certitude even where there is no evidence or proof.

verb

  1. to trust in the truth of : believe

  2. to supply goods on credit to

  3. to bring credit or honor upon

find his story hard to credit

ascribe attribute assign impute credit mean to lay something to the account of a person or thing. ascribe suggests an inferring or conjecturing of cause, quality, authorship. attribute suggests less tentativeness than ascribe, less definiteness than assign.

noun

  1. a card authorizing purchases on credit