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In a perfidious manner.

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy. Clarendon.

on of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.

The quality or state of being prefident. [Obs.] Baxter.

Trusting beforehand; hence, overconfident. [Obs.] Baxter.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.

Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant. -- Self`-con"fi*dent*ly, adv.

Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

ains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian. Hammond.

The state of Solifidians.

A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

Almost quinquefid; nearly quinquefid.

Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.

Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.

On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.

all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.