What is "entrusted"

Usage examples of "entrusted".

Giovanni Grimani, a young nobleman, who, well aware that he had no right to command me, begged me in the most polite manner to call at his house to receive a letter which had been entrusted to him for delivery in my own hands.

She then left the parlour, ordering me to wait, and at the end of two hours she came back with a letter which she entrusted to my hands, telling me that, if I succeeded in finding you out and in bringing her an answer, she would give me two sequins.

I went to the Imperial Library, and was much surprised to meet De la Haye in the company of two Poles, and a young Venetian whom his father had entrusted to him to complete his education.

If I had entrusted Father Balbi with these deep mysteries of moral philosophy he would have pronounced me a madman.

The most sensible of them said that in the first place the abbot must withdraw the four hundred thousand ducats which he had entrusted to the Marquis Serpos at four per cent.

He gave me a pleasant welcome, shewed me his library, and entrusted me to the care of one of his abbes, a man of parts, who acted as my cicerone every where.

Dandolo was entrusted with the care of finding one, young, handsome, virtuous, and able to serve the Republic, either at home or abroad.

Bragadin, delighted at not being entrusted with the commission, laughed heartily.

Malipiero, entrusted me with all the papers which I might require to succeed.

I promise you to whisper in the ear of any person you may choose, and even to inform everybody, that you are going on an important mission which I have entrusted to you.

I placed in an envelope the papers she had entrusted to me, and I handed them to him to return to his sister.

Supreme Council of my country entrusted me with an employment dangerous to one of my years.

I would have done anything to be entrusted with her, but I saw it would be no good trying to get possession of her, as the mother was evidently keeping her as a resource for her old age.

After I had pondered over the case of conscience you submitted to me, I went to the convent of C--- where the abbess is a friend of mine, and I entrusted her with the secret, relying on her discretion.

The worthy lady sent me a bill of exchange for fifty thousand francs, which she had happily not entrusted to the robber, and the money rescued me very opportunely from the state to which my imprudence had reduced me.