credent (2 for similar use of an active form with passive sense cf. INTRENCHANT)
1.
believing, trustful
Ham. I. iii. 30
“with too ear,”
Compl. 279
“Lending . . . soul to
that strong-bonded oath.”
2.
credible
Meas. IV. iv. 29
“my authority bears so
credent bulk,”
Wint. I. ii.
142.
