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To trust on

Trust \Trust\, v. i.

  1. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

    More to know could not be more to trust.
    --Shak.

  2. To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

    I will trust and not be afraid.
    --Isa. xii. 2.

  3. To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

    It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
    --Johnson.

    To trust in, To trust on, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. ``Trust in the Lord, and do good.''
    --Ps. xxxvii. 3. ``A priest . . . on whom we trust.''
    --Chaucer.

    Her widening streets on new foundations trust.
    --Dryden.

    To trust to or To trust unto, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on; as, to trust to luck.

    They trusted unto the liers in wait.
    --Judges xx. 36.