believe

1. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).Examples: "If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change."; "I believe there are faeries."; "FOꝛaſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet fooꝛth in oꝛder a declaration of thoſe things which are most ſurely beleeued among vs[…]"Synonyms: understand, feel, seetransitive

2. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.Examples: "Why did I ever believe you?"; "BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld."Synonyms: trust, Adam and Evetransitive

3. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.Examples: "After that night in the church, I believed."; "[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]"intransitive

4. (transitive) To opine, think, reckon.Examples: "Do you think this is good? —Hmm, I believe it's okay."; "“Some people believe him charismatic,” Van Assen told me. “I am less sensitive to it.”"; "He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism."Synonyms: holdtransitive