Be-lĭēv'er, n.

n. 1. One who believes; one who gives credit to other evidence than that of personal knowledge. “To stagger the faith of the least scrupulous believer.” Prescott.

2. (Theol.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God;—in a more restricted sense, a professor of Christianity; one who receives the gospel, as unfolding the true way of salvation, and Christ as his Savior. “The universal body of true believers.” Swift.
3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who was admitted to all the rites of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen or one yet under instruction. Hook.