Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
514. get it into one's head, take it into one's head; come round to an
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opinion; swallow &c. (credulity) 486. cause to be believed &c. v.;
satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure;
convince, convict|!, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over;
indoctrinate &c. (teach) 537; cram down the throat; produce conviction,
carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to. go down, find credence,
pass current; be received &c. v., be current &c. adj.; possess, take
hold of, take possession of the mind. Adj. believing &c. v.; certain,
sure, assured, positive, cocksure, satisfied, confident, unhesitating,
convinced, secure. under the impression; impressed with, imbued with,
penetrated with. confiding, suspectless[obs3]; unsuspecting,
unsuspicious; void of suspicion; credulous &c. 486; wedded to. believed
&c. v.; accredited, putative; unsuspected. worthy of, deserving of,
commanding belief; credible, reliable, trustworthy, to be depended on;
satisfactory; probably &c. 472; fiducial[obs3], fiduciary; persuasive,
impressive. relating to belief, doctrinal. Adv. in the opinion of, in
the eyes of; me judice[Lat]; meseems[obs3], methinks; to the best of
one's belief; I dare say, I doubt not, I have no doubt, I am sure; sure
enough &c. (certainty) 474; depend upon, rely upon it; be assured, rest
assured; I'll warrant you &c. (affirmation) 535. Phr. experto crede
[Lat][Vergil]; fata viam invenient [Lat]; Justitiae soror incorrupta
Fides[Lat]; "live to explain thy doctrine by thy life" [Prior]; "stands
not within the prospect of belief" [Macbeth]; tarde quae credita
laedunt credimus [Lat][Ovid]; vide et crede [Lat].
#485. Unbelief. Doubt.窶年. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit,
miscreance[obs3]; infidelity &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3]; dissent &c.
489; change of opinion &c. 484; retraction &c. 607. doubt &c.
(uncertainty) 475; skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust,
mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt[obs3], suspicion, jealousy, scruple,
qualm; onus probandi[Lat]. incredibility, incredibleness; incredulity.
[person who doubts] doubter, skeptic, cynic.; unbeliever &c. 487. V.
disbelieve, discredit; not believe &c. 484; misbelieve[obs3]; refuse to
admit &c. (dissent) 489; refuse to believe &c. (incredulity) 487.
doubt; be doubtful &c. (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be
skeptical as to &c. adj.; diffide|; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke,
scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts,
suspicions; have one's doubts. demure, stick at, pause, hesitate,
scruple; stop to consider, waver. hang in suspense, hang in doubt.
throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question;
question, challenge, dispute; deny &c. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise
a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion;
ergotize[obs3]. startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's
belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief. Adj. unbelieving;
skeptical, sceptical. [transitive] incredulous as to, skeptical as to;
distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting &c. v. doubtful
&c. (uncertain) 475; disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief &c.
484; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to
doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be
believed, inconceivable; impossible &c. 471. fallible &c. (uncertain)
475; undemonstrable; controvertible &c. (untrue) 495. Adv. cum grano
salis[Latin: with a grain of salt]; with grains of allowance. Phr.
fronti nulla fides[Lat]; nimium ne crede colori [Lat][Vergil]; "timeo
Danaos et dona ferentes" [Latin: I fear the Greeks even when bearing
gifts][Vergil], beware of Greeks bearing gifts; credat Judaeus Apella
[Lat][Horace]; let those believe who may; ad tristem partem stenua est
suspicio [Lat][Syrus].
#486. Credulity.窶年. credulity, credulousness &c. adj.;
cullibility|, gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion,
self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c. (obstinacy)
606; hyperorthodoxy &c. 984[obs3]; misjudgment &c. 481. credulous
person &c (dupe) 547. V. be credulous &c. adj.; jurare in verba
magistri[Lat]; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust;
take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away
with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the
moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for
the substance; catch at straws, grasp at straws. impose upon &c.
(deceive) 545. Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c. 545;
simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced;
over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated,
superstitious; confiding &c. (believing) 484. Phr. the wish the father
to the thought; credo quia impossibile [Lat][Tertullian]; all is not
gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce[Sp]; omne ignotum pro
magnifico[Lat].
#487. Incredulity.窶年. incredulousness[obs3], incredulity;
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skepticism, pyrrhonism|!; want of faith &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3].
suspiciousness &c. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion &c. (unbelief)
485.
mistrust, cynicism.
unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c.
(heterodox) 984.
V. be incredulous &c. adj.; distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485; refuse
to
believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to;
hold
aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri[Lat].
Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible[obs3];
hard of
belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe;
suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical.
1The word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now
quite another meaning (949). See Trench, On the Study of Words, p. 71.
#488. Assent.窶年. assent, assentment[obs3]; acquiescence, admission;
nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c. 23; affirmance,
affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.
unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi;
popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion;
concurrence &c. (of causes) 178; cooperation &c. (voluntary) 709.
ratification, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa;
indorsement &c. (record) 551[obs3]. consent &c. (compliance) 762.
pressure to conform, herd instinct, peer pressure. V. assent; give
assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree &c. 23; receive,
accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide,
reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along with, chime in
with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views,
agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to,
conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede &c. (yield) 762;
come round to; abide by; permit &c. 760. arrive at an understanding,
come to an understanding, come to terms, come to an agreement. confirm,
affirm; ratify, approve, indorse, countersign; corroborate &c. 467. go
with the stream, swim with the stream, go with the flow, blow with the
wind; be in fashion, join in the chorus, join the crowd, be one of the
guys, be part of the group, go with the crowd, don't make waves; be in
every mouth. Adj. assenting &c. v; of one accord, of one mind; of the
same mind, at one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing &c. 602.
uncontradicted, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted. carried,
agreed, nem[abbr]. con. &c. adv[abbr: nemine contradicente].;
unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation. affirmative &c.
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