The Collaborative International Dictionary
Credit \Cred"it\ (kr[e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Credited; p. pr. & vb. n. Crediting.]
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To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin?
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To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
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(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.
To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one.
Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine.
--Newman.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of credit English)
Usage examples of "crediting".
These articles and editorials heaped praise on Ingram and his White Castle operation, appropriately crediting them with originating the fast-food hamburger industry.
Her obituary in the company House Organ praised her twenty years of dedicated service, crediting her with bringing the hamburger "to thousands of women in the various cities in which White Castle operates.
The article recounted the story of White Castle's beginnings, crediting Ingram with being the man who made White Castle and White Castle as the company that created the industry.
Joat hung on, hoping that Silken was at least crediting the work she was doing against the debt.
The Muse of History has neither the same divination of the intrinsic nor the devotion to it, though truly, she has possession of all the positive matter and holds us faster by the crediting senses.
Matthew’s quoted above, but he ultimately said, {87a} “In the literal sense of the word (sic) no doubt natural selection is a false term,” as personifying a fact, making it exercise the conscious choice without which there can be no selection, and generally crediting it with the discharge of functions which can only be ascribed legitimately to living and reasoning beings.
Darwin had been dealing fairly by us, when he saw that we had failed to catch the difference between the Erasmus-Darwinian theory of descent through natural selection from among variations that are mainly functional, and his own alternative theory of descent through natural selection from among variations that are mainly accidental, and, above all, when he saw we were crediting him with other men’s work, he would have hastened to set us right.
But I think it is possible to show that Hubbard absolutely stole ideas from some definite sources, such as Sadger and some others without ever crediting their works.
To be aware of her, as if crediting him with some sixth sense he couldn't possibly.
To be aware of her, as if crediting him with some sixth sense he couldn't possibly.
But am I crediting you with too much intelligence, too much wisdom even for a magical dog?