I.trusting too much, over-confident (rare but class.): exsultantem te et praefidentem tibi Repriment legum habenae, self-confident, rash, Poët. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 166; so, “homines sibi praefidentes,” Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90.—Adv.: praefīdenter , too confidently (late Lat.); comp.: “praefidentius,” Aug. Ep. 55.
prae-fīdens , entis, Part. [fido],