intrusting

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“Do you remember intrusting Mr Ayling with some goods about that time to take up-country?”

From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.

Judaism differs from all the ancient religions chiefly in its intrusting its truth to the whole people instead of a special priesthood.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

On selling out, Captain Dutton had honorably paid every farthing he owed in the world before intrusting the remainder of his capital to the unprincipled Smith; and now this upright conduct was its own reward.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

And very ill-natured it was of him to leave me in the stable, instead of intrusting me to your care, mistress.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.

He enjoined that the building should forthwith be destroyed, intrusting the task to the swift hands of Theophilus.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William