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‖ credo|ˈkriːdəʊ|
[L. crēdo ‘I believe’. Used similarly in Fr., It., Sp., Pg., Ger., etc.]
1. The first word of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, in Latin; hence in early times a common name for either of these Creeds; now used chiefly for local or historical colouring, or as the name of a musical setting of the Nicene Creed.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 75 Þe salm þet heo alle [apostles] þus writen wes ihaten Credo, efter þan formeste word of þe salm. a1225Ancr. R. 18 And siggeð Pater Noster & Credo. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 7 And sayde he wold teche hym his credo. 1549(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Ord. Priests, After the gospel and Credo ended. 1850Prescott Peru II. 131 The Spaniards..muttered their credos for the salvation of his soul! 1891W. B. Robertson Luther 21 The old monk Staupitz explained to him the ‘Credo’.
b. gen. A creed or formula of belief.
1587J. Still Hymn agst. Sp. Armada Roxb. Bal. VI. 378 We will not change owre Credo for Pope, nor boke, nor bell; And yf the Devil come him self, we'll hounde him back to hell. 1840Carlyle Heroes iv. (1858) 274 With his hypothesis and ultimate infallible credo. 1873Morley Rousseau II. 262 The formal lines of a theological doctrine or a systematic credo.
†2. [transl. of a Spanish idiom ‘en menos que un credo’, etc.] The short space of time in which a man might say his Creed. Obs. Cf. paternoster.
1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xlix. 192 They were defeated in the space of two credoes. Ibid. lxi. 251 For the space of five or six Credoes nothing had been spoken [so pp. 229, 268, etc.]. |