Fidonia (fidonia)

[NL., irreg. Male and Female of Fidonia faxoni , natural size. low spots. The caterpillar feeds on the Scotch fir. F. dusky-brown color, and adorned with numerous pale-yel fazoni is a common New England species, extending west to Mi ouri, having ochery-brown fore wings and lighter hind wings. fiducial (fi-du's hal), a. [=Pg. fiducial = It. fiduciale, Such a fiducial persuasion as cannot deceive us. Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 268. Faith is cordial, and such as God will accept of, when it affords fiducial reliance on the promises, and obediential submi ion to the commandments. Hammond . 2. Same as fiduciary , 2.-3. In physics , having a fixed position or character, and hence used as a basis of reference or comparison. It [the knee-piece in an electrometer] also carries a fidu cial mark running opposite a graduation on one edge of the groove, by means of which whole turns of the screw are read off, fractions being estimated by means of a drum head. Encyc. Brit ., VIII. 120. In half an hour there was an evident commencement of whitening from the fiducial yellow ray to the mean red. Ure, Dict., III. 110. Fiducial edge of a ruler, the thin or feather edge. Gillespie. fiducially (fi-du's hal-i), adv . With confidence. Faith causes the soul fiducially and strongly to rely and cast itself upon God in prayer. South, Works, IX. x. fiduciary (fi-dū'shi-ā-ri), a. and n. [F. fidu ciaire = Pg. It. fiduciario, Elaiana can rely no where upon mere love and fiduciary obedience, unle at her own home, where she is exemplarily loyal to herself in a high exact obedience. Howell . That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary a ent to whatever the gospel has revealed. Abp . Wake , Prep. for Death. 2. Having the nature of a trust, especially a financial trust; pertaining to a pecuniary trust or trustee: as, a fiduciary power. Also fiducial . August us, for particular reasons, first began to authorize the fiduciary bequest, which in the Roman law was called fidei commis sum. Montesquieu , Spirit of Laws (trans.), xxvii. 1, note. Commercial credit. is to-day the most important wheel in the whole fiduciary mechanism. Cyc. Pol. Econ . , I. 695. Grape-vine (F. viticida), (Line Fiduciary capacity, a relation of trust and confidence: shows natural size.)