fidere

1 fidere v. fidare

2 fidere [CL] , to trust (in), believe (in), rely (on); b (w. dat. or abl.); c (w. de); d (w. in). e (w. inf.) to have the confidence (to). f (pr. ppl.) trusting, faithful. ~endum, credendum GlH F 367; 9‥ ~ere, getrywan WW; ~endum est et absque dubio sciendum quod ‥ Byrht. V. Ecgwini 359.  b ~ebam equo quem mihi ‥ donaverat Bede HE V 6; viribus et sponsi fidens sum sancta virago Bonif. Aen. 155; o res caeca nimis terreno fidere regno Alcuin SS Ebor 228; habenas / solvit equo fidens Ib. 1184; Fortune vicibus fidere nemo velit Garl. Epith. VI 300.  c qui cum ‥ suos defensarent ‥, fisi de invicta fortitudine stipendianorum militum quos conduxerant Abbo Edm. 1; vestram imprecor ‥ pietatem ‥ de vestris ‥ fisus beneficiis, quatenus ‥ B. Ep. 387.  d non ~entes in homine, sed in Deo Gildas EB 20; in Domino fidens permansit ibidem Wulf. Swith. II 372; justus in hiis igitur fidere nemo velit Garl. Tri. Eccl. 4; non fido rethoris in eloquencia Walt. Wimb. Carm. 286.  e Orpheu, nulla fidis tangit, quos tangere fidis Serlo Wilt. 2. 45.  f nota subit fidens Dagoberti moenia regis Frith. 697; rigidam fidenti pectore seram / arripit Wulf. Swith. II 604; adesto, Domine, populis tuis ‥ ~entibus [AS: gitriwendum] Rit. Durh. 38; laetiores et ~entiores effecti Gosc. V. Iv. 90c; Balsh. AD rec. 2 124 (v. fidentia 1).