intransitive verb. undefined

To consign or make over as a trust; transfer or commit in trust; confide: followed by to.

To invest, as with a trust or responsibility; endue, as with the care or fiduciary possession of something: followed by with.

Synonyms Confide, Consign, etc. See commit.

transitive verb. 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.

verb. Alternative form of entrust.

verb. confer a trust upon

"For, as he [a husband] is to answer for her [his wife's] misbehavior, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children; for whom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer. 7"

give  hand  pass  pass on  reach  

charge  commend  consign  obligate  recommit  

epaulette  fasc  gold-braided  interim  xxxiii  

commit  confide  consign  trust  

intrusted  intrusting  intrusts