Verify, seal, attest, give credit or validity to, prove to be genuine.
But it is unreasonable to give credit to all that is objected by an enemy, who makes open profession of his design to defame him.
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
Nothing less, quoth Pantagruel, do I believe than that it is a mere abusing of our understandings to give credit to the words of those who say that there is any such thing as a natural language.
The only other one where I thought it was done was Leask's; but I happened to be present last day when Mr. Robertson was examined, and I heard him say that they did give credit, which I did not know before.
Has it been long the practice in your establishment not to give credit to your weekly workers?
But the merchant who employs men at the Faroe fishing is generally ready to give credit to a man who is in these circumstances, and who does not have money?
Half are inclined to give credit to the report, and half believe that it must have been the spirit of Sália.
The grandeur of their ancestors sounds like a fable in the mouth of the degenerate Javan; and it is only when it can be traced in monuments, which cannot be falsified, that we are led to give credit to their traditions concerning it.
It is certain that what I have to relate respecting the conduct of Bernadotte to Bonaparte is calculated to give credit to these assertions.
I found it also necessary to read a great number of works, in order to rectify important errors to which the want of authentic documents had induced the authors to give credit.
If we give credit to all the reports of the origin of nations, we may give up all pretensions to common sense.
Is it right to persecute men, as priests have done while they had power, for refusing to give credit to this tissue of contradictory and absurd fables?
The writer could as soon believe that the moon is a large cheese, suspended in the firmament, as give credit to this contemptible story.
That you may the more readily give credit to these things: I myself, when a little boy, took notice that this Ofellua did not use his unencumbered estate more profusely, than he does now it is reduced.
Whatever you show to me in this manner, not able to give credit to, I detest.
His account of it is republished in the preface to the fifth volume of Vasari, printed at Siena; but it is mixed up with so many assertions, to which it is difficult to give credit, that I must decline considering it at all.
Can we then hesitate as to the originality of any picture, if we give credit to the oil paintings of Michelangiolo?
The old writers of Siena have taken no notice of so remarkable an event, and we cannot, therefore, give credit to Pio, a stranger, and a modern author.
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