fiduciary

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fiduciary - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\ (? or ?), a. [L. fiduciarus, fr.
     fiducia: cf. F. fiduciaire. See Fiducial.]
     1. Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting;
        faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity. "Fiduciary
        obedience." --Howell.
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     2. Holding, held, or founded, in trust. --Spelman.
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  Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\, n.
     1. One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
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              Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon
              those whose fiduciaries they are.     --Jer. Taylor.
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     2. (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without
        works; an Antinomian. --Hammond.
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fiduciary - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fiduciary
      adj 1: relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the
             holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary
             contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power"
             [syn: fiduciary, fiducial]
      n 1: a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it
           is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for
           personal gain"

fiduciary - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FIDUCIARY. This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a 
  fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to 
  deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament. Merl. 
  Repert. h.t. But Pothier, Pand. vol. 22, h.t., says that fiduciarius heres 
  properly signifies the person to whom a testator has sold his inheritance, 
  under the condition that he should sell it to another. Fiduciary may be 
  defined to be, in trust, in confidence. 
       2. A fiduciary contract is defined to be, an agreement by which a 
  person delivers a thing to another, on the condition that he will restore it 
  to him. The following formula was employed:' Ut inter bonos agere opportet, 
  ne propter te fidemque tuam frauder. Cicer. de Offc. lib. 3, cap. 13; Lec. 
  du Dr. Civ. Rom. Sec. 237, 238. See 2 How. S. C. Rep. 202, 208; 6 Watts & 
  Serg. 18; 7 Watts, 415. 
  
  

fiduciary - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "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