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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary;
- Example: "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain"


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another);
- Example: "a fiduciary contract"
- Example: "in a fiduciary capacity"
- Example: "fiducial power"
[syn: fiduciary, fiducial]


The 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Holding, held, or founded, in trust. --Spelman. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\, n. 1. One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee. [1913 Webster] Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon those whose fiduciaries they are. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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"
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
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.