0 a set of beliefs that influences the way you live
1 a short, formal statement of Christian religious belief, said in church
A few European cities had at times been cities of refuge, but New York and Philadelphia were more than mere temporary shelters to every creed.
But amid the wreck of faiths and creeds, he achieved the strange paradox of American optimism: he never lost faith in democracy, and fought valiantly to the end in behalf of equality and the welfare of the average man.
He obtained his release by professing conformity to the new creed.
Preachers and professors forgot their creeds and took to trade, and even to keeping gambling-houses.
Before crawling into their sleeping-bags, and at Bennett's request, all joined in repeating the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
It is somewhat startling to find in the Creed this statement regarding our Lord, "He descended into hell."