- 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
He doesn't return from New York until six o'clock this evening, and the paper is far too valuable to intrust to the mails or to an underling.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft
To commend or intrust to; to commit to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Meanwhile, I will leave you, for you may have a thousand messages to give monsieur for your relations and friends, commissions to intrust to him, and I should be very sorry to incommode you.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
The king then called to him his third and youngest son, and said, “If a man to whom I intrust my honour and my life prove faithless, how should he be punished?”
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
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
Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is true that government affairs are now intrusted to others who always had misgivings concerning the old acquisitive ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it was soon found that wherever the conduct of any enterprise was intrusted to his judgment, its success was almost certain, and that skill and intrepidity with him went hand-in-hand.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
But when Stewart asked for his bill, the proprietor, instead of intrusting it as usual to the headwaiter, presented it in person.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
He was still intrusting the servant with his message when Aurora, leaning over the railing of the hallway above, called down to him, “Come right upstairs!”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The sea brings out the real character of every man; and those who journey over its "deep invisible paths" find themselves intrusting their most sacred confidences to the keeping of comparative strangers.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
Were Bluebeard to do me the honor of intrusting me with his keys, I should spend a pleasant half-hour speculating on his family affairs.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
