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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1475-1570
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Crede, Creid, n. Also: cred, creyd. [e.m.E. and ME. crede, OE. créda, L. crēdo.] The Creed.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 1226.
Scho can hym pray, That be the cred vald til hir say c1420 Wynt. ii. 530.
For thare is nane that can this rede Amange the artikyllys off the Crede c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 46/21.
The aue maria and the crede and the haly writ 1551 Hamilton Catechism 41.
Ye … suld expresly beleif al the artickels of your crede 1562-3 Winȝet II. 8/7.
We and al wtheris professing our common crede(b) c1420 Wynt. v. 3296.
At solempne messis he Ordayned that the Creyd suld be Sayd or songyn c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v. 214.
Traistis rycht weill all this was suth in deide, Suppos that it no poynt be of the creide a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 318.
Thow says for thame few psaltris, psalmis, or creidis 1533 Gau 5/7.
Thay suld leir the chrissine faith as it is contenit in the creid c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 565.
With beidis in hand crossand & sayand creid c 1570 Satirical Poems xxxiv. 28.
In treuth thay neuer observe thair creid
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