intrust

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If the traveller intrusts himself to the care of a local guide he will certainly be carried to the little chapel of Saint Michael overhanging the town.

From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by Hutton, William Holden

When one person intrusts another with his property for any purpose, it is called bailing it to him.

From Rollo's Museum by Abbott, Jacob

As war is the extremity of evil, it is, surely, the duty of those, whose station intrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

This individuality is the permanent element to which he intrusts the eternity of himself and of his continued action—the eternal order of things in which he lays his perpetuity.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

Because when she intrusts you to me, it means that I must show my authority over you.

From Plays by Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich