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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of intrust. Confer entrusted.

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Examples

  • And although the book cannot think for itself, but must merely preserve the idea intrusted to it, without change, it is vastly superior in stability to the brain that gave it birth, so that thousands of years after that brain has mouldered into dust it is capable of reproducing the original ideas in a second brain where they may germinate and bear fruit.

    A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

  • By these Constitutions governments were organized, and the Legislatures were intrusted with a general power, to do what they might think the public good required.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Deep Roots of Constitutional Constraints on Speech-Based Civil Liability 2010

  • She wrote a note, addressed it to the man in question, and intrusted it to a messenger who lay in wait at the mouth of

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • But besides his mere external graces the poodle rendered important service by performing errands intrusted to him.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • He poured his soul into stories, articles, and poems, and intrusted them to the machine.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • It is because they are thus selected that wealth aggregates under their hands - both their own and that intrusted to them ...

    Robert Reich: The Rebirth of Social Darwinism Robert Reich 2011

  • But besides his mere external graces the poodle rendered important service by performing errands intrusted to him.

    Finding a Little Too Much in Oz 2009

  • It is because they are thus selected that wealth aggregates under their hands - both their own and that intrusted to them ...

    Robert Reich: The Rebirth of Social Darwinism Robert Reich 2011

  • She wrote a note, addressed it to the man in question, and intrusted it to a messenger who lay in wait at the mouth of

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • Specifically, Black had inquired in writing whether Mexico “would receive an envoy from the United States, intrusted with full power to adjust all the questions in dispute between the two governments.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

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