To intrustto the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
She's the one woman in the world to whom I could intrust my child.
It was silly of any one to intrust him with a mission of the kind, for he couldn't possibly keep it to himself.
He said true that we are not to intrust a thing so precipitous in itself to a soul that has not wherewithal to withstand its assaults and disprove practically the saying of Agesilaus, that prudence and love cannot live together.
One device was to take an extra-precious relic and intrust it to monks, who would place it in a cart and drive through a wide region haranguing the faithful and holding out a purse for them to fill.
The count was supposed to treat him as a kind of younger self--intrust him with secrets, send him as confidential messenger on delicate business, allow him to carry his purse when he journeyed, and keep the keys to his coffers when at home.
Now he was urging the big man to intrust his inanimate burden to one of the sailors, but met with the most positive refusal.
The woman whom he had declined tointrust to the care of any but himself was probably his wife.
You have a perfect right to intrust him with your secret, and you are quite sure of his honour.
The Committee of Historical Works is going to intrust you with a commission.
On leaving it he carried with his own hands, and would not intrust to any porter, the small valise, of which he always had the key about him.
Those ashes must be blown up, and I had intended to intrust the task to that absent fellow Marius, who is all right, but no longer comes here.
But I hope, Captain Heraugiere, that should the prince decide to adopt any plan you may form, and intrust the matter to you, that you will take me with you in your following.
I will remain here below if Captain Francis desires to see me or has any missive to intrust to me.
The life in towns and cities has quickened the intelligence of the working classes, so that they are no longer willing to intrust the affairs of government entirely to a king or to the representatives of the upper classes.
One devout writer exclaims that young men are considered quite good enough to be priests to whom one would not intrust the care of a cow.
To you, Lovell and Ratcliffe, I intrusttwo hundred knights,--your sole care the head of the rebel earl!
Marie Antoinette was much elated, and presenting to them the Dauphin, she exclaimed, “I intrust him to the nobility.
What if a delinquent intrust me with his estate or person to secure it from penalty?
What if a friend intrust me with his estate to secure it from some great taxes or tributes to the king?
You ought not to take such a trust: and if you have done it, you ought not to hold it, but resign it to him that did intrust you.
What if a papist or other erroneous person intrust me (being of the same mind) to educate his children in that way, when he is dead, and afterward I come to see the error, must I perform that trust or not?
What if a man secretly intrust his estate to me, for himself or children, when he is in debt, to defraud his creditors?
More than that, they were papers of no importance except to him personally; contained no plans nor key to any military secret; he had been far too wise to intrust any to the accidents of this alien house.
Dismissing her at last with an effort, he finished his work and then rose, and unlocking a closet, took out a small dispatch-box, to which he intended to intrust a few more important orders and memoranda.
But when this same nation becomes acquainted with the art of writing, it grows unwilling to intrust these matters to the memory of itinerant singers, and avails itself of its new art to preserve them in a fixed and material form.
To the arms of Thy protection I intrust my safety.
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.
But he took care not to intrust his gift to the concierge, for if he did he knew that his servant would certainly be told of it.
But having already had a rather painful experience at the hands of the doctor, I was not particularly anxious to intrust myself to the tender mercies of even a dusky maiden, however proficient a nurse she might be.
I shall intrust you with letters to the Government which I want you to send secretly to Khartum, and which will inform them of the nature of your mission.
What thou didstintrust to us, Senor, we have done.
It would have been better to have had it in typewriting, but I suppose Stillman didn't dare intrust it to the machine people.
To Leonard Lewisohn it was decided to intrust the French, English, and German end of the subscription, and he was at once to receive orders to lay his pipes.
I can only express my regret for the delay, which this accident will occasion in the execution of the business with which Congress has done us the honor to intrust us.
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