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creable (1141)

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The form creiable is a cross reference to the following entry:

creable (1141)

creiable,  croiable  
  FEW:  credere 2/ii,1301a Gdf:  creable 2,359a GdfC:  creable 1 9,241a TL: crëable 2,1017 DEAF:  croire (creable)  DMF:  créable  TLF: OED:  creable a. 1  MED:  creable a.  DMLBS:

a.

credible, believable
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Se vus ne nus faites saveir Ke desuz fait la tur chaeir, Cument sera chose creable Que par mun sanc seit mielz estable?  Brut WACE 7495
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  a tuz ces iert bien creable E mult a oir delitable  S Jean ANTS 1019
( s.xiv1 )  Il n’est pas creable qe uns homs soit suffisable a deus choses  Lib Cust 19
reliable, trustworthy
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  (At the Annunciation) la creable meschine (=B.V.M.) respundi ‘[…]’  Joshua Sermons ii 30
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  de creables genz e de bone fame  Mir Just 100
( 1363-75; MS: 1419 )  par autres enformaceons creiables  Lib Alb 372
( 1399; MS: s.xv1 )  q’ils (=sheriffs) soient creables, honestes […]  Lett & Pet 25.27
nun creable
nuncreable
foi creable
complete trust
( 1310 )  voloms que vous donez foi creable en ceo q’il vous dirra de par nous  Rot Scot i 95
estre creable a, en
to believe in, trust
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lur vie ert relusable E mut en Deu creable  Sibile 218
( 1323-25 )  pur ce, sire, vous plese qe de tres legier vous ne soiez croiable as tieux (=my detractors)  St Sard 169

See also:

credible 
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