2. Adjective. Not believed; discounted; discredited; ignored. ¹
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Definition of Disbelieved
1. disbelieve [v] - See also: disbelieve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disbelieved
Literary usage of Disbelieved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Trial of James H. Peck, Judge of the United States District by James Hawkins Peck, Arthur Joseph Stansbury, United States Congress. Senate (1833)
"Mr. Lawless certainly did not publish the article in the expectation of being
disbelieved. Did he expect to produce the effects •which he confesses he aimed ..."
2. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"... disbelieved what they told him, and condemned them to death, as guilty of
falsehood. , XXIX. When the priests conducted Apis to his presence, ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Less than twenty years ago the scientific men of all Europe utterly disbelieved
in the со-existence of man with extinct animals ; yet the facts adduced by ..."
4. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"He had either never heard of it, or he disbelieved it, or he assumed that the
courts of law, or the Attorney-General, would allow its proper influence to a ..."
5. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"... the glass was much condemned as of inferior quality ; and the authority of
Pliny*, previously disbelieved, was now welcomed as an old friend, ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"... and the peninsular form of the African continent; one of which could be
ascertained by no other means, and the former of which was disbelieved ..."
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