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Tome incidental Remarks upon an Enquiry concerning 
Virtue, by the Earl of Shaftfbury, 1724, 8vo. In the 
fame year he produced his Life of Cardinal Wolfey, fol. 
Befides thefe works, Dr. Fiddes was the author of A 
Preparative to the Lord’s Supper; and A Letter in An- 
fwer to one from a Free-thinker, occafioned by the Duke 
of Buckingham’s Epitaph, &c. He died at Putney, near 
London, in 1525, aged fifty-four years. 
FID'DICHOW, or Viduchova, a town of Germany, 
in the Circle of Upper Saxony, and Hinder Pomerania, 
on the Oder : twenty-two miles fouth-weft of Stargard. 
FID'DLE, f. [pibele, Sax. vedel, Dut . fidel, Germ. 
fidicula, Lat. full, Erie,] A flringed inftrument of mulic; 
a violin.—In trials of mufical (kill the judges did not 
crown the fiddle , but,the performer. Stillingfleet. 
The adventure of the bear and fiddle 
Is fung; but breaks off in the middle. " Hudibras. 
To FID'DLE, v. n. To play upon a fiddle.—Themif- 
tocles being defined at a feaft to touch a lute, he faid he 
could not fiddle, but he could make a fmall town a great 
city. Bacon. 
Others import yet nobler arts from France, 
Teach kings to fiddle , and make fenates dance. Pope. 
To trifle ; to fliift the hands often, and do nothing', like a 
fellow that plays upon a fiddle. —Good cooks cannot abide 
what they juftly call fiddling work, where abundance of 
time is fpent, and little done. Swift. 
FTD'DLE-DOCK,/". in botany. See Rumex. 
FID'DLE-FADDLE,/! [a cant word.] Trifles.—Site 
faid that her grandfather had a horfe fhot at Edgehill, 
and their uncle was at the fiege of Buda ; with abundance 
oifiddle-faddle of the fame nature. Spectator. 
FID'DLE-FADDLE, adj. Trifling; giving trouble, 
or making a buftje about nothing.—She was a trouble- 
fome fiddle-faddle old woman, and fo ceremonious that 
there was no bearing of her. Arbuthnct. 
FID'DLE-STICK,/’. The bow and hair which a fid¬ 
dler draws over the firings of a fiddle : 
His grifly beard was long and thick, 
With which he ffrung his fiddlc-fiick. Hudibras. 
FID'DLE-STRING, f. The firing of a fiddle; that 
which gives the tune when (truck with the bow.—A fid¬ 
dle-firing, moiftened with water, will fink a note in a little 
time, and confequently muft be relaxed or lengthened one 
•fixteenth. Arbuthnot. 
FID'DLE-WOOD. See Cit'harexylum, vol. iv. 
p. 264. 
FID'DLER,/ - . A mufician; one that plays upon the 
fiddle.—Nero put the fiddlers to death, for being more 
fkilful in the trade than he w’as. Taylor. 
FID'DLER’s EL'BOW, a bend of Wood creek, in 
North America, between the outlet of South bay and 
the mouth of the creek, at the northern end of lake 
Champlain, oppofite the mouth of Eaft bay. The mouth 
of Wood creek lies lat. 43. 32. N. Ion. 73. 15. 1 2. W. 
FI'DE-JUS'SOR, f. in the civil law, a furety, or one 
that obliges himfelf in the fame contrail with a principal, 
for the greater fecurity of the creditor or flipulator. 
FI'DE-JUSSO'RES ASSI'DUI. See Assiduus. 
FIDE'I-COMMIS'SUM, in Raman antiquity, an 
effate left in truft with any perfon for the ufe of another. 
See Trustee. 
FIpE'LITY, /. Ifidelitas, Lat. fidelite, Fr.] Honefiy ; 
veracity .—The church, by her public reading of the book 
of God, preached only as a witnefs; now the principal 
thing required in a witnefs is fidelity. Hooker. —Faithful 
adherence.—They miftake credulity for fidelity. Clarke. 
Fidelity is reprefented in painting and lculpture by 
a beautiful virgin clad in white, holding in one hand a 
feal, and in the other a key; a dog lying at her feet. Or, 
an amiable woman (landing upright upon a cube, tread¬ 
ing mafks of all forts under her feet, and holding a mirror 
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in her hand. All which emblems are extremely obvious, 
Hieroglyphically, Fidelity is reprefented by an elephant. 
FIDE'NA, an inland town of Latium, whole inhabi¬ 
tants were culled Fidenates. The place was conquered by 
the Romans, before Chriff 435. Virgil. 
- FIDEN'TIA, anciently a town of Gaul, on the fouth 
of the Po, between Placentia-and Parma. Cicero. 
FI'DES, tlie goddefs of faith or fidelity, worfilipped 
by the Romans. She had a temple near the capitol, 
founded by Numa Pompilius ; but no animals were of¬ 
fered, or blood fpilt, in her facrifices. During the per¬ 
formance of her rites, her priefts appeared in white veff- 
ments, with their heads and hands covered with linen, to 
fhew that fidelity ought to be facred. 
To F 1 DGE, or to Fidget, v. n. [a cant word.] To 
move nimbly and irregularly. It implies in Scotland 
agitation : 
Tim, thou’rt the Punch to ftir up trouble; 
You wriggle, fidge, and make a rout, 
Put all your brother puppets out. Szvift. 
FID'GET, f. Refilefs agitation.—Cried the fquarc- 
hoods in woeful fidget. Gray. 
FID'GETY, adj. Refilefs, moving from place to 
place. 
FIDI'CULA,/] in mufic, a fmall lute, a gittern. In 
afironomy, Lyra, a conftellation of the. northern hemi- 
fphere. 
FI'DIS, .a town of Germany, in the arduchy of Auf- 
tria : fix miles fouth-weft of Bohmifch Waidhoven. 
FID'IUS DIUS, A divinity by whom the Romans 
generally fwore. He was alfo called Sandtus, and Semi¬ 
pater, and he was folemnly addrefted in prayers the 5th 
of June, which was annually confccrated to his fervice. 
Varro. 
FID'MIN, a town of Egypt : five miles weft of Fa- 
youm. 
FIDU'CI AL, adj. f fiducia, Lat.] Confident; undoubt¬ 
ing.—Faith is cordial, and fuch as God w ill accept of, 
when it affords fiducial reliance on the promifes, and obe¬ 
diential fubmifiion to the commands. Hammond. 
FIDU'CIARY, f. [fiduciarius, Lat.] One who Holds 
any thing in truft. One who depends on faith without 
works.—The fecond obftruitive is that of the fiduciary , 
that faith is the only inftrument of his j a fiifi cat ion ; and 
excludes good works from contributing any thing towards 
it. Hammond. 
FIDU'CIARY, adj. Confident; fteady ; undoubting; 
untouched with doubt.—That faith, which is required 
of us, is then perfect, when it produces in us a fiduciary 
aflent to whatever the gofpel has revealed. Wake. —Not 
to be doubted.—Elaiana can rely no where upon mere 
love and fiduciary obedience, unlcfs at her' own home, 
where (lie is exemplarily loyal to herfelf in a high exait 
obedience. HozmI .—In the nature of a truft.—The high 
admiral himfelf cannot grant it for longer than his own 
time, being but a truft and fiduciary power. Spelman. 
FIE, inter], \_pfiuy, Tent.] An explanation expreflive 
of difapprobation. 
FIECH'TACH, a town of Gerrriany, in the circle of 
Bavaria and Upper Palatinate : feven miles eaft of Nab- 
burg, and fix north of Retz. 
FIEF,/! \_fief Fr.] A fee ; a manor; a pofleflion held 
by fome tenure of a fuperior.—As they were honoured 
by great privileges, fo their lands were in the nature of 
fiefs, for which the pofieffbrs were obliged to do perfonal 
fervice at fea. Arbuthnot. 
Fief, which in law we call fee, is in other countries the 
contrary to chattels: in Germany, certain diftrifts or ter¬ 
ritories are called fiefs-, where there are fiefs of the em¬ 
pire. See the articles Fee, and Tenure. 
FIELD,/! [pelb, Sax.field, Germ, veld , Dut.] Ground 
not inhabited ; not built on : 
Come live with me, and be my love, 
And we will all the pleafures prove, 
That 
