fiduciary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: fi=du=ci=ar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

fiduciary, a. [L. fiduciarus, fr. fiducia: cf. F. fiduciaire. See Fiducial.].

•  Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
•  Holding, held, or founded, in trust.  Spelman.  [1913 Webster]

fiduciary, n. 

•  One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.  [1913 Webster]

  "Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon those whose fiduciaries they are."  [1913 Webster]
•  One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.  Hammond.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fiduciary, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a of a trust, trustee, or trusteeship. b held or given in trust.
2 (of a paper currency) depending for its value on public confidence or securities.
--n. (pl. -ies) a trustee.

Etymology

L fiduciarius (as FIDUCIAL)

THESAURUS

fiduciary

believable, colorable, conceivable, convictional, credible, depositary, depository, fiducial, held in pledge, held in trust, in escrow, in trust, pistic, plausible, reliable, tenable, trustee, trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, worthy of faith

ROGET THESAURUS

fiduciary

Belief

N belief, credence, credit, assurance, faith, trust, troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation, dependence on, reliance on, persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self- conviction, certainty, opinion, mind, view, conception, thinking, impression, surmise, conclusion, tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking, popular belief, firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep- rooted belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief, well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion, uberrima fides, system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons, article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, tenets, credenda, creed, thirty-nine articles, catechism, assent, propaganda, credibility, believing, certain, sure, assured, positive, cocksure, satisfied, confident, unhesitating, convinced, secure, under the impression, impressed with, imbued with, penetrated with, confiding, suspectless, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, void of suspicion, credulous, wedded to, believed, accredited, putative, unsuspected, worthy of, deserving of, commanding belief, credible, reliable, trustworthy, to be depended on, satisfactory, probably, fiducial, fiduciary, persuasive, impressive, relating to belief, doctrinal, in the opinion of, in the eyes of, me judice, meseems, methinks, to the best of one's belief, I dare say, I doubt not, I have no doubt, I am sure, sure enough, depend upon, rely upon it, be assured, rest assured, I'll warrant you, experto crede, fata viam invenient, Justitiae soror incorrupta Fides, live to explain thy doctrine by thy life, stands not within the prospect of belief, tarde quae credita laedunt credimus, vide et crede.