sb. pl. Also 7 in Anglicized form credends. [L. crēdenda (things) to be believed, neut. pl. of crēdend-us, gerundive of crēd-ĕre to believe.] Things to be believed; propositions forming or belonging to a system of belief; matters of faith. (Opposed to agenda, things to be done, matters of practice.)
1638. Chillingworth, Relig. Prot., i. 41. Those points of Faith … which were meerely and purely Credenda, and not Agenda.
1641. Sir E. Dering, Sp. on Relig., 20 Nov. xiv. 63. There is a great difference … between the Agends and the Credends of a Christian.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 325. There never yet was a people of philosophers … their credenda being too … speculative for vulgar comprehension.
1841. Miall, Nonconf., I. 481. Is the power of selecting the credenda of the nation to be vested in the civil magistrate?
