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Definition of Disbelieve
1. Verb. Reject as false; refuse to accept.
Generic synonyms: Reject
Specialized synonyms: Doubt, Distrust, Mistrust, Suspect
Antonyms: Believe
Derivative terms: Disbeliever
Definition of Disbelieve
1. v. t. Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Definition of Disbelieve
1. Verb. Not believe; to exercise disbelief. ¹
2. Verb. Actively deny a statement, opinion or perception. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disbelieve
1. [v -LIEVED, -LIEVING, -LIEVES]
Medical Definition of Disbelieve
1. Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual. "Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility." (J. S. Mill) Origin: Disbelieved; Disbelieving. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disbelieve
Literary usage of Disbelieve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"I.) A careful investigation of the woman's history led me to disbelieve that the
swelling was possibly syphilitic. This view was further supported by the ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"An heretical Mahometan sect, who disbelieve in God, the resurrection, and a future
life. They think that tho world is the production of four eternal ..."
3. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"Does he deride and disbelieve the law which seems to conduct our star of empire
westward ? Oh no! Hear him : — " He believed that the system of law and of ..."
4. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"... ridiculous thing imaginable, to affect to disbelieve any of the facts therein
recorded on account of the remoteness of the times in which they occurred. ..."
5. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"Thus the members of a Christian community being presumed to entertain the common
faith, no man is supposed to disbelieve the existence and moral government ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"... insisting that the teaching given in them was calculated to make the pupils
disbelieve in the Catholic religion, and to otherwise corrupt their morals. ..."
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