- a variation of entrust.
intrust
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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"If you will intrust me with the key of your valise, I will bring them over with me to-morrow."
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
From the heart of the Sierra, where I once more hear the awful heart-throbs of Nature, I now intrust the first reception of these lessons entirely to my own country.
From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Joaquin Miller
At last, though he would not intrust me with his materials, he permitted me to work with my own; promising that, if my baubles pleased him, he would purchase them.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
A true and gallant gentleman!" said he, slowly repeating her own words; "and if so, is it an unsafe keeping to which to intrust your happiness?
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
As John Marshall was later to say of this new Constitution, “The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are intrusted to its Government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2012
Three men, namely M. Kaganovitch, known as Stalin's right hand, Jarovski, and Enukidze, secretary of the central executive committee, were intrusted with carrying out this scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand.
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It devolved upon him to secure their friendship, and266 keep them at peace; and he was also intrusted, in a great measure, with the power of regulating the fur-trade among them.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
"But you can at least tell me who sent you here, Geordie?" said I, anxious for further information before intrusting myself to such erratic guidance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
They made a bold fight for Springfield, intrusting the management of the bill to Lincoln.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
On selling out, Captain Dutton had honorably paid every farthing he owed in the world before intrusting the remainder of his capital to the unprincipled Smith; and now this upright conduct was its own reward.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
And very ill-natured it was of him to leave me in the stable, instead of intrusting me to your care, mistress.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
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