Intrust
[ɪn'trʌst]
Definition
(v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.
Checker: Quincy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Confide, commit, consign, give in trust, deliver in trust.
Typed by Claire
Definition
See Entrust.
v.t. to give in trust: to commission: to commit to another trusting his fidelity.—n. Entrust′ment.
Checker: Pamela
Examples
- To your care, kind kinsman, I intrust them, satisfied that they will want no hospitality which these sad walls can yet afford. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He gnashed his teeth with rage, tore the hair from his head, and assailed with horrid imprecations the men who had been intrusted with the writ. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Six of those last-named little promissory notes, all due on the same day, Ben, and all intrusted to me! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Many of the old operators, taken on out of good-nature, were poor exhibitors and worse accountants, and at last they and the machines with which they had been intrusted faded from sight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Were you intrusted with this message to me by name? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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