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Webster 1913 Edition

Fiduciary

Fi-du′ci-a-ry

(? or ?)
,
Adj.
[L.
fiduciarus
, fr.
fiducia
: cf. F.
fiduciaire
. See
Fiducial
.]
1.
Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm;
as, in a
fiduciary
capacity
.
“Fiduciary obedience.”
Howell.
2.
Holding, held, or founded, in trust.
Spelman.

Fi-du′ci-a-ry

,
Noun.
1.
One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
Instrumental to the conveying God’s blessing upon those whose
fiduciaries
they are.
Jer. Taylor.
2.
(Theol.)
One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.
Hammond.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fiduciary

FIDU'CIARY

,
Adj.
[L. fiduciarius, from fido, to trust.]
1.
Confident; steady; undoubting; unwavering; firm.
2.
Not to be doubted; as fiduciary obedience.
3.
Held in trust.

FIDU'CIARY

, n.
1.
One who holds a thing in trust; a trustee.
2.
One who depends on faith for salvation, without works; an antinomian.

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