noun
pl. -·dos·- creed
- [usuallyC-]
- the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed, both of which (in Latin) begin with credo
- a musical setting for either of these
Origin of credo
Middle English from L, I believe: see creed
noun
The definition of a credo is a statement or system of beliefs or guiding principles.
Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you is an example of a credo.
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noun
pl. cre·dos- A creed.
- Credo a. The Apostles' Creed.b. The Nicene Creed, especially as the third item of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass.c. The musical setting of the Nicene Creed.
Origin of credo
Middle English the Apostles' Creed from Latin crēdō I believe (the first word of the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed) first person sing. present tense of crēdere to believe ; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- Credo, I believe), or Confessions Of Faith.
- In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.
- This gives the utmost possible effect of finality to the whole Credo, and contrasts admirably with the coldly formal instrumental end of the Resurrexit three movements further back.
- Obviously the greatest difficulty in any elaborate instrumental setting of the Credo is the inevitable anti-climax after the Resurrexit.
- Accordingly, Palestrina and his great contemporaries and predecessors treated the Gloria and Credo in a style midway in polyphonic organization and rhythmic breadth between that of the elaborate motet (adopted in the Sanctus) and the homophonic reciting style of the Litany.
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