Thesaurus: fiducial

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1. a. Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.
2. a. Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.
3. adj. relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another)
4. adj. used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement
5. adj. based on trust
6. 1. Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm. "Fiducial reliance on the promises of God." Hammond. 2. Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power. Spelman. Fiducial edge (Astron. & Surv.), the straight edge of the alidade or ruler along which a straight line is to be drawn. -- Fiducial line or point (Math. & Physics.), a line or point of reference, as for setting a graduated circle or scale used for measurments.
7. a. used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement s. based on trust