N. credulity, credulousness, cullibility|, gullibility, gross credulity, infatuation, self delusion, self deception, superstition, one's blind side, bigotry, hyperorthodoxy, misjudgment, credulous person

V. be credulous, jurare in verba magistri, follow implicitly, swallow, gulp down, take on trust, take for granted, take for gospel, run away with a notion, run away with an idea, jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, think the moon is made of green cheese, take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance, catch at straws, grasp at straws, impose upon

Adj. credulous, gullible, easily deceived, simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid, easily convinced, over-credulous, over confident, over trustful, infatuated, superstitious, confiding

Phr. the wish the father to the thought, credo quia impossibile, all is not gold that glitters, no es oro todo lo que reluce, omne ignotum pro magnifico

N. heterodoxy, error, false doctrine, heresy, schism, schismaticism, schismaticalness, recusancy, backsliding, apostasy, atheism, bigotry, fanaticism, iconoclasm, hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, bibliolatry, sabbatarianism, puritanism, anthropomorphism, idolatry, superstition, dissent, sectarism, sectarianism, noncomformity, secularism, syncretism, religious sects, protestantism, arianism, adventism, jansenism, stundism, erastianism, calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, origenism, sabellianism, socinianism, deism, theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism &c. high church, low church, broad church, free church, ultramontanism, papism, papistry, monkery, papacy, anglicanism, catholicism, romanism, popery, scarlet lady, church of rome, greek church, paganism, heathenism, ethicism, mythology, polytheism, ditheism, tritheism, dualism, heathendom, judaism, gentilism, islamism, islam, mohammedanism, babism, sufiism, neoplatonism, turcism, brahminism, hinduism, buddhism, sabianism, gnosticism, hylotheism, mormonism, christian science, heretic, apostate, antichrist, pagan, heathen, painim, paynim, giaour, gentile, pantheist, polytheist, idolator, schismatic, sectary, sectarian, sectarist, seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter, nonconformist, nonjuror, bigot, fanatic, abdal, iconoclast, latitudinarian, deist, theist, unitarian, positivist, materialist, homoiousian, homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian, skeptic, protestant, huguenot, orthodox dissenter, congregationalist, independent, episcopalian, presbyterian, lutheran, calvinist, methodist, wesleyan, ana, baptist, mormon, latter-day saint, irvingite, sandemanian, glassite, erastian, sublapsarian, supralapsarian, gentoo, antinomian, swedenborgian, adventist, bible christian, bryanite, brownian, christian scientist, dunker, ebionite, eusebian, faith curer, curist, familist, jovinianist, libadist, quaker, restitutionist, shaker, stundist, tunker &c, ultramontane, anglican, oxford school, tractarian, puseyite, ritualist, puritan, catholic, roman, catholic, romanist, papist, jew, hebrew, rabbinist, rabbist, sadducee, babist, motazilite, mohammedan, mussulman, moslem, shiah, sunni, wahabi, osmanli, brahmin, brahman, parsee, sufi, buddhist, magi, gymnosophist, fire worshiper, sabian, gnostic, rosicrucian &c

Adj. heterodox, heretical, unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical, antiscriptural, apocryphal, unchristian, antichristian, schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic, sectarian, dissenting, dissident, secular &c, (lay) 997, pagan, heathen, heathenish, ethnic, ethnical, gentile, paynim, pantheistic, polytheistic, judaical, mohammedan, brahminical, buddhist, romish, protestant, bigoted, (obstinate) 606, superstitious, fanatical, idolatrous, visionary

Phr. "slave to no sect", superstitione tollenda religio non tollitur