a. Obs. Also 6 fydell, 7 fidell. [a. F. fidèle, ad. L. fidēl-is, f. fidēs faith.] Faithful, sincere, true.
1539. Hen. VIII., To Sir T. Wyatt, 10 Mar. (R.). Enhanced them to so high nobility and honour as they have been, so long as they were true and fidele unto us.
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, R iv. He is one of the moost fydell & faithfullest Apothecaries in London.
1671. R. McWard, The True Non-conformist, 133. Our Lord more faithful having a dispensation entrusted to him only of Gospel Ordinances, with a becoming liberty, hath in his fidell discharge, both fully defined the former, and established the latter, free from all humane, either General or Particular inventions, and impositions.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. Preface. There are many excellent Philosophemes and Notions both Moral and Metaphysic, which if improved by an humble fidele mind, on Evangelic Principes and Motives, may be of great use.
