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fiducial, a.|faɪˈdjuːʃ(ɪ)əl, fɪˈdjuːʃəl|
[ad. L. fīdūciāl-is, f. fīdūcia trust, confidence: see -al1.]
1. Theol. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, trust or reliance.
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 164 Such a..Faith, as is both an intellectuall and fiduciall assent to diuine Promises. 1656H. More Enthus. Tri. 43 Every thing has..a fiduciall Knowledge of God in it. a1703Burkitt On N.T. John xv. 5 Abide in me..by a real and fiducial adherence. a1711Ken Divine Love Wks. (1838) 312 Teach us to live..with a fiducial dependence on thy fatherly goodness. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxxi. 3 II. 63 The words..appear to..fasten upon the Lord with a fiducial grip.
2. humorous nonce-use. Willing to trust.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. ix. 169 Taverns..not hospitable—not fiducial—don't trust.
†3. Trusted, trusty. Obs.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. iv. iii, Prop fiduciall Of all those lives and beings cleeped Naturall. 1730–6in Bailey (folio).
4. In Surveying, Astronomy, etc. Of a line, point, etc.: Assumed as a fixed basis of comparison.
1571Digges Pantom. (1591) 30 Note the degrees cut by the line fiduciall. 1644Nye Gunnery (1670) 44 The Line Fiduciall, because from this line proceeds the beginning of the degrees in the Circle. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 55 These sights and one edge of the index are in the same plane, and that is called the fiducial edge of the index. 1873Maxwell in Life xiv. (1882) 435 We need some fiducial point or standard of reference.
5. = fiduciary.
1832in Webster quoting Spelman.
Hence fiˈducially adv., in a fiducial manner.
1647T. Hill Best & Worst of Paul (1648) 22 God hath given thee a sweet perswasion of soul to rest fiducially. 1654Warren Unbelievers 204 Fiducially trusting upon Christ. a1716South Serm. Wks. 1737 VI. 472 It is the Spirit of God alone, that..enables the soul fiducially to..rest upon that object. 1727Bailey vol. II, Fiducially, honestly, trustily. 1847in Craig. |