What is "entrust"

Usage examples of "entrust".

Entrusted to the care of Prince William of Wied when he came to Albania in 1914 to serve briefly as king.

Fates had entrusted this woman to him, just as his brother had entrusted Antiphone to him.

Sir William concluded with a very earnest appeal to Lord George Bentinck and his friends, who might at no very distant period have the government of Ireland entrusted to them, not, for the sake of a momentary postponement of the Corn Bill, to place themselves, by voting for this measure of coercion, in collision with the Irish nation.

I was fortunate to be a part of that new beginning, though I was but a small finger of the bioengineering touch group entrusted with the project.

No sooner was he back in Bochum than he entrusted his praxis-oriented seminars to his assistants and canceled all his teaching activities for the following summer.

Venetian Fra Mauro, of the Camaldolese Convent of San Miguel de Murano, that this commission was entrusted.

Examples of these were Father Abraham, who was of the Chaldees, and was entrusted with the secret teachings and doctrines laid down by the Babylonians of old Moses, Jacob, Quetzalcoatl, Mohammed, Buddha and many others.

These Chartist combinations were very prevalent throughout the country, and in the early part of this year, these combinations in the different cities of the United Kingdom proceeded to the election of deputies, in order to form a national convention, which was to have moveable sittings, and to be entrusted with the ultimate direction of their proceedings.

But I was quietly confident: entrusting a mission to a djinni who knows your name is like tossing lit matches into a fireworks factory.

What it implied, although it was not stated in so many words, was that Milton Raskob would not, in future, be entrusted with any decisions.

September 11, 1813, which purported to be from Colonel Fossett of Vermont to General MacComb, advising him of massive reinforcements on the way to aid him against the Canadian General Prevost in the Battle of Plattsburg: it was entrusted to an Irishwoman of Cumberland Head whom the U.

You may safety entrust any message to my fair courier, Corson brenn Torisk by name, who can be found betimes at the ale-house called The Jugged Hare.

The knowledge with which Ezekiel had entrusted High Priest Khatin was far too potent to dispense except to those for whom it was meant.

Sali was in the capital-preservation business, which meant not so much growing the money entrusted to him as making sure the lockbox had a really good lock.

Open thy Maeonian and thy Mantuan coffers, with whatever else includes thy philosophic, thy poetic, and thy historical treasures, whether with Greek or Roman characters thou hast chosen to inscribe the ponderous chests: give me a while that key to all thy treasures, which to thy Warburton thou hast entrusted.