fiducial

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FIDU'CIAL, adjective [from Latin fiducia, from fido, to trust.] 1. Confident; undoubting; firm; as a fiducial reliance on the promises of the gospel. 2. Having the nature of a trust; as fiducial power.
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