Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Based on or relating to faith or trust.
- adjective Relating to or characteristic of a legal trust; fiduciary.
- adjective Regarded or employed as a standard of reference, as in surveying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or characterized by the belief in supernatural powers.
- Trusting; confident; undoubting; firm.
- Same as
fiduciary , 2. - In physics, having a fixed position or character, and hence used as a basis of reference or comparison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.
- adjective Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary.
- adjective (Astron. & Surv.) the straight edge of the alidade or ruler along which a straight line is to be drawn.
- adjective (Math. & Physics.) a line or point of reference, as for setting a graduated circle or scale used for measurments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Accepted as a fixed basis of
reference . - adjective Based on having
trust . - noun In
manufacturing , a small mark on acircuit board used toalign components , a fiducial point.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another)
- adjective based on trust
- adjective used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yes. marker = printed icon or glyph, also known as a fiducial
UgoTrade 2009
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Yes. marker = printed icon or glyph, also known as a fiducial
UgoTrade 2009
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From the fiducial points, stable features were computed that characterize the uniqueness of an individual.
Archive 2008-08-01 Telle Whitney 2008
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From the fiducial points, stable features were computed that characterize the uniqueness of an individual.
Guest Blogger - Deanna Kosaraju Telle Whitney 2008
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There is a twofold fiducial trust; -- one whereby we trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin; which you may call adherence.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Many great divines, at the first Reformation, did (as the Lutherans generally yet do) thus make the mercy of God in Christ, and thereby the forgiveness of our own sins, to be the proper object of justifying faith, as such; — whose essence, therefore, they placed in a fiducial trust in the grace of God by Christ declared in the promises, with a certain unwavering application of them unto ourselves.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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Reformers of the sixteenth century, partly followed by the Baianist and Jansenist school, so minimized the native power and moral value of our free will as to make final perseverance depend on God alone, while their pretended fiducial faith and inadmissibility of grace led to the conclusion that we can, in this world, have absolute certainty of our final perseverance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The Protestant conception of justifying faith as a mere fiducial faith is quite as much at variance with revelation as is the sola fides doctrine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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God in his Word, but in embracing with fiducial reliance and trust the one and only Saviour whom God reveals.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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A favorite device for perpetuating institutions among the primitive peoples of many districts on different continents is the taboo, or prohibition, which is commonly fiducial but is often of general application.
The Siouan Indians 1882
rolig commented on the word fiducial
See also fiducial mark.
February 21, 2009