fiducial
IPA: fʌdˈuʃiʌɫ
noun
- In photography, a familiar reference object used to show size or scale, such as a ruler or a coin; a fiducial marker.
- In manufacturing, a small mark on a circuit board used to align components; a fiducial point.
adjective
- Accepted as a fixed basis of reference.
- Based on having trust.
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Examples of "fiducial" in Sentences
- Yes. marker = printed icon or glyph, also known as a fiducial
- From the fiducial points, stable features were computed that characterize the uniqueness of an individual.
- God in his Word, but in embracing with fiducial reliance and trust the one and only Saviour whom God reveals.
- There is a twofold fiducial trust; -- one whereby we trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin; which you may call adherence.
- The Protestant conception of justifying faith as a mere fiducial faith is quite as much at variance with revelation as is the sola fides doctrine.
- A favorite device for perpetuating institutions among the primitive peoples of many districts on different continents is the taboo, or prohibition, which is commonly fiducial but is often of general application.
- Reformers of the sixteenth century, partly followed by the Baianist and Jansenist school, so minimized the native power and moral value of our free will as to make final perseverance depend on God alone, while their pretended fiducial faith and inadmissibility of grace led to the conclusion that we can, in this world, have absolute certainty of our final perseverance.
- Many great divines, at the first Reformation, did (as the Lutherans generally yet do) thus make the mercy of God in Christ, and thereby the forgiveness of our own sins, to be the proper object of justifying faith, as such; — whose essence, therefore, they placed in a fiducial trust in the grace of God by Christ declared in the promises, with a certain unwavering application of them unto ourselves.
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