fiducially

Adverb

fiducially (comparative more fiducially, superlative most fiducially)

1. With confidence.
   • enables the Soul fiducially to close with and rest upon that Object1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
   • This I call an acting fiducially; that is, with a believing persuasion and particular application.1866, Ralph Erskine, Select sermons, page 178
2. In a fiducial manner; using or as a reference marker.
   • A very perfect internal collimating telescope, with means under the observers hand of adjusting fiducially the line of collimation without the intervention of an assistant.1871, Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern Telescope Committee, Correspondence Concerning the Great Melbourne Telescope, page 21
   • Then take the micrometer reading, using the indicator fiducially.1970, Stanley Alfred James Parsons, Metrology and Gauging, page 164
3. (proscribed) Synonym of fiducial (accepted as a basis of reference)
   • The success profit AG2(Y) is below the fiducially point Alpha, AG2(Y) < AG1 (X) exist and the success profit AG1(X) is over the fiducially point Beta.2004, Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, page 179
   • Cluster outlines are dealt with as combinatorial associations in which, for each fiducially point, a stream from an alternate illustration experience can be chosen, in this way making a very helpful plan. This plan is printed to new face pictures to successfully discover the fiducially factors in...2019, D. K. Kishore Galla, BabuReddy Mukamalla, “Real Time Gender Classification Based on Facial Features Using EBGM”, in Suresh Chandra Satapathy, K. Srujan Raju, K. Shyamala, editor, Advances in...

   Synonyms:

   fiducial

4. Pertaining to or based on the correspondence between a parameter in a sample and the same parameter in the population from which the sample was drawn.
   • Closely related to the tests that have previously been described is the notion of fiducially related values of σ and s.1938, On the Statistical Theory of Errors, page 142
   • In arguing fiducially about the value of a parameter, a procedure applicable to some of the simple cases begins by the calculation from the sample of an estimate of the parameter in question.1967, Samuel Stanley Wilks, Collected Papers; Contributions to Mathematical Statistics, page 252
5. In a fiduciary manner.
   • Be it further enacted, That all libraries &c. held fiducially or individually for seminary or church objects, shall be alike exempt from taxation.1816, Acts Passed at the First Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, page 520
   • Where plan was part owner of mortgages, other investors were not fiducially liable to plan1975, Pension Plan Guide