It is impossible to portray justly the food habits of the Seri without some reference to a systematic scatophagy, which seems to possess fiducial as well as economic features.
The significant feature of the development is the total absence of foresight or design, save in so far as the concepts are fiducial rather than technical or directly industrial.
In spite of this, in that very writing he alleges that he has satisfactorily proved that Justification is effected by fiducial faith.
Thereby he transformed faith into trust, for what he termed fiducial faith partook more of the nature of a strong, artificially stimulated hope; it really amounted to an intense confidence that the merits of Christ obliterated every sin.
Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.
Secondly, we lay hold upon it only by faith, and thus our life comes from faith (fiducial faith with assurance of salvation), of which fact we must be joyfully confident.
At that time a new and final element had been added, the doctrine of absolute individual certainty of salvation by “Fiducial Faith.
Passages to the contrary, which have been quoted from the imprinted lectures on Hebrews delivered previous to the autumn of 1517, need not be interpreted in the sense of fiducial faith and assurance of salvation.
Henceforward fiducial faith appears to him as really an isolated fact, an act of confidence inspired by God merely from His good pleasure and with no regard for any work.
The uppermost horizontal fiducial line continues to intersect the pupils, and the vertical one continues to divide the face symmetrically.
When the mouth is adjusted to the lower fiducial line, the scale is exact.
For convenience in enlarging or reducing, I take care that the intersection of the vertical fiducial line with that which passes through the pupils of the eyes shall correspond to the optical axis of the camera.
It gives, in short, the average tint of every unit of area in the picture, measured from the fiducial lines as co-ordinates.
As regards the fiducial lines, they might be drawn on the glass screen; but black lines are not, I find, the best.
Framework, adjustable, holding the transparency with the fiducial lines on it.
It is upon this focusing-screen in the roof that I see the fiducial lines by which I make all the adjustments.
There were, however, certain questions which both Catholics and Lutherans could ask and answer impartially: Did Luther possess in any eminent degree the fiducial faith which he represented as so essential?
Luther’s own words here are perhaps the best refutation of the Lutheran doctrine of Justification, for he speaks of sin, even of the worst, in a way that well lays bare the weaknesses of the system of fiducial faith.
Hence the writer of the letter seeks to convince him that the strength of the fiducial faith preached by himself, Luther, was so great, that no sense of sin need trouble a man.
The effects he ascribed to fiducial faith were so difficult of attainment and so opposed to man’s natural disposition, that never-ending uncertainty was the result, both in his own case and in that of many others.
Unceasingly did he strive to acquire a feeling of strong certainty in defiance of the devil, as indeed his theology demanded: We must by fiducial faith have made our position secure against the devil, otherwise we have no stay at all.
Set the T square for the thermometer reading and note the diagonal line which intersects the fiducial edge of the T square the nearest to the barometer reading.
The point of intersection of the fiducial or bevel edges of the primary and secondary arms is the position of the target on the plotting-board.
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.
