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to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in, of the thing believed, to credit, have confidence, in a moral or religious reference, used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul, to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something saving faith, mere acknowledgment of some fact or event intellectual faith, to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity, to be entrusted with a thing