credence

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Acceptance as true or valid; belief: synonym: belief.
• noun Credibility; plausibility.
• noun Recommendation; credentials.
• noun A small table or shelf for holding the bread, wine, and vessels of the Eucharist when they are not in use at the altar.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To give credence to; believe.
• noun Belief; credit; reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge, as from the testimony of others.
• noun That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; credentials: now used only in the phrase letter of credence (a paper intended to commend the bearer to the confidence of a third person).
• noun Some act or process of testing the nature or character of food before serving it, as a precaution against poison, formerly practised in royal or noble households.
• noun In medieval times, a side-table or side-board on which the food was placed to be tasted before serving; hence, in later use, a cupboard or cabinet for the display of plate, etc.
• noun Eccles., in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, a small table, slab, or shelf against the wall of the sanctuary or chancel, near the epistle side of the altar (on the right of one facing it).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To give credence to; to believe.
• noun Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
• noun That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence.
• noun (Eccl.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.
• noun A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence.
• noun rare Credential or supporting material for a person or claim.
• noun religion A small table or credenza used in certain Christian religious services.
• verb obsolete To give credence to; to believe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a kind of sideboard or buffet
• noun the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true