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Convince vs Belive - What's the difference?

convince | belive |

As verbs the difference between convince and belive

is that convince is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence while belive is (intransitive|obsolete|outside|dialects) to remain, stay.

As an adverb belive is

(obsolete|outside|scotland) quickly, forthwith.

convince

English

Verb

(convinc)
  • To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
  • * Atterbury
    • Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
  • To persuade.
  • (obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
  • (obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
  • (obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
  • * Bible, John viii. 46
    • Which of you convinceth me of sin?
  • * Dryden
    • Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.

    Synonyms

    * persuade * satisfy * assure * convert * win over

    Related terms

    * convict * conviction * convincible * convincingly English control verbs ----

    belive

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) beliven, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Verb

  • (intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To remain, stay.
  • * 1900' (original date: '''1483 ), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, ''The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints :
    • So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
  • (intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To abide, continue.
    • Related terms
    * (2) *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) belive, .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
    • By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].
  • Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon
    • English words prefixed with be-