fiduciary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FIDU'CIARY, adjective [Latin 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, noun 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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