catch at straws, grasp at straws.
     impose upon &c. (deceive) 545. 
     Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c. 545; simple, green,
soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding &c. (believing) 484. 
     Phr. the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile
[Lat][Tertullian]; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce[Sp]; omne ignotum pro magnifico[Lat].

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     #487.  Incredulity.—­ N. incredulousness[obs3], incredulity;
skepticism, pyrrhonism|!; want of faith &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3].
     suspiciousness &c. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion &c. (unbelief) 485.
     mistrust, cynicism.
     unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c.
(heterodox) 984. 
     V. be incredulous &c. adj.; distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485; refuse to
believe; shut one’s eyes to, shut one’s ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri[Lat]. 
     Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible[obs3]; hard of
belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical.

1The word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now quite another meaning (949).  See Trench, On the Study of Words, p. 71.

     #488.  Assent. —­ N. assent, assentment[obs3]; acquiescence, admission;
nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c. 23; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.
     unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi;
popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion; concurrence &c. (of causes) 178; cooperation &c. (voluntary) 709.
     ratification, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa;
indorsement &c. (record) 551[obs3].
     consent &c. (compliance) 762.
     pressure to conform, herd instinct, peer pressure. 
     V. assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree &c.
23; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one’s views, agree in opinion; vote, give one’s voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
     acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede &c. (yield)
762; come round to; abide by; permit &c. 760.
     arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms,
come to an agreement.
     confirm, affirm; ratify, approve, indorse, countersign; corroborate
&c. 467.
     go with the stream, swim with the stream, go with the flow, blow with
the wind; be in fashion, join in the chorus, join