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1554 ‘Eusebius Pamphilus’ in tr. M. Luther Faithful Admon. True Pastor & Prophete (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A.iii^v To call to remembrans how good god is yet vnto them, to call them styll to the credyting of the godlye preachers doctryne.

1653 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James i. 21 There is an act of faith, the crediting and believing faculty is stirred up.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxxiv. 301 For the better crediting whereof, they..wrote their Letters.

1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse ii. i. 29 Oct. I assure you, gentlemen, you may credit what I say. 1st. Off. Don't tell me of crediting; I have a warrant, and must enquire.

1839 Merchants' Mag. July 72 The crediting party, when a copartner is acting out of the copartnership line, must inquire of the other copartners if the act be sanctioned.

1868 Christian Ambassador 1 1 In every case where the heart is constrained to harmonize with the ways of God, the crediting faculty finds little or no difficulty in regarding the records of the Bible as authentic.

1922 V. Ross Hist. Canad. Bank of Commerce II. App. 534 The same voucher was used by a crediting branch as an advice of an amount credited to another branch and by the receiving branch as a debit to the crediting branch.

1991 Oxf. Econ. Papers 43 280 Mayer (1986) argues—in the context of the UK imputation system—that an interior solution..could result from imperfections in the crediting of personal income tax withheld on dividends.

2007 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 1 Apr. a1 He hopes to work out a crediting agreement where the state would cover the costs from Proposition 1E funds, then collect a credit on a future flood control project.