Real salt sea-water, for the taste and enlightenment of incredulous elders.

skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous, faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian^. worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly minded &c Adv. irreligiously &c adj.. 4. ACTS OF RELIGION 990.

He very politely bit back an incredulous smile, and said he should be very happy to see her perform.

They were notsmile if you will, O practical and incredulous reader!

incrédulo, -a, incredulous.

When he replied that in the larger cities, at any rate, of the West, there were retail emporiums fully up to date in all matters of fashion and improvement, and caterers who could supply the latest delicacies in season at reasonable prices, an incredulous smile was the result, and regret was expressed that local prejudice and pride should so blind a man to the actual truth.

The holy women went instantly to the Cenaculum, and told the disciples who were assembled there that they had seen the Lord; the disciples were incredulous, and would not give credence either to their account or to that of Magdalen.

He had a vision of himself walking up to the front door of the Hardys, smoking a pipe in a well-appointed room, and telling an incredulous and envious Fullalove Alley about it afterwards.

She would help to open it: and so she did, while old Heale and his wife stood by curious,he with a maudlin wonder and awe (for he regarded Tom already as an altogether awful and incomprehensible "party"), and Mrs. Heale with a look of incredulous scorn, as if she expected the box to be a mere sham, filled probably with shavings.

" At first the Frenchman was incredulous.

Who is so ignorant as not to know, or so incredulous as to disbelieve, that the early Baptists of New England were fined, imprisoned, scourged, and finally banished by our puritan forefathers?and

incredulous about the atrocities perpetrated by those who hold human beings as property, to be used for their pleasure, when history herself has done little else in recording human deeds, than to dip her blank chart in the blood shed by arbitrary power, and unfold to human gaze the great red scroll?

She had settled herself on a low stool at my grandmother's feet, and while we all sat in silent expectation of the "once upon a time," or "when I was young," which is generally the prelude to similar narratives, Emma suddenly started up, and fixing an incredulous gaze upon our dignified relative, exclaimed: "But were you ever young, grandmother?

I was rather incredulous at first, not conceiving that so brilliant a dream could be realized; but after a while the doll actually made its appearance, and I began to regard Mammy as something little short of a witch, and became far more tractable in consequence of my increased awe.

" Jane obeyed, although her face still wore an incredulous expression; and I continued eating, looking as wild as possible all the time.

His search after truth was in no sneering or incredulous spirit, but in that of a reverent inquirer.

I came to hear voices in the air, words so clearly spoken that even an incredulous mind could not ignore them.

And then, and thenTo all of which she lent a willing and incredulous ear, finding in that dreaming a quality of fear as well as delight.

For the first time she was incredulous of disaster.

He was startled, incredulous.

This Joseph was much delighted with Mariamne's Conversation, and endeavoured, with all his Art and Rhetorick, to set out the Excess of Herod's Passion for her; but when he still found her Cold and Incredulous, he inconsiderately told her, as a certain Instance of her Lord's Affection, the private Orders he had left behind him, which plainly shewed, according to Joseph's Interpretation, that he could neither Live nor Die without her.

At first he was incredulous of the strange story; but when the truth flashed on him from the new fire in her eyes, he kindled with rage, and forbade her ever seeing or communicating with her lover again, on the penalty of disinheritance and banishment forever from a father's love.

Max's tone was incredulous.

Bee is polite but incredulous.

It almost seemed, to the incredulous eyes of Byrne, that the face was filled out a trifle.