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verb

Trust v. t. (past & past part. trusted; pres. part. trusting)

1.

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. "I will never trust his word after." "He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived."

2.

To give credence to; to believe; to credit. "Trust me, you look well."

3.

To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. "I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face." "We trustwe have a good conscience."

4.

To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. "Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain."

5.

To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. "Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war."

6.

To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

7.

To risk; to venture confidently. "(Beguiled) by thee to trust thee from my side."

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."

2.

To be confident, as of something future; to hope. "I will trust and not be afraid."

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."

To trust in, To trust on, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. "Trust in the Lord, and do good." "A priest... on whom we trust." "Her widening streets on new foundations trust."

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."

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Etymology of 'Trusted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trusted" Quotes from Famous Books

... scaling-ladders—but the rest were narrowly examined in the presence of many witnesses, and when Gadatas heard the object of their journey he got his equipment together and set out in the night at full speed to take the news. [17] In the end he made his way into the fortress, trusted and welcomed as a deliverer, and for a time he helped the commandant to the best of his ability. But as soon as Cyrus appeared he seized the place, aided by the Persian prisoners he had taken. [18] This done, and having set things in order within the fortress, Gadatas went out to Cyrus, bowed ...

— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon

... to the British Crown, and ended French rivalry north of the Great Lakes. Victories like these, seemingly so casual, really as final and as unrevisable as Fate, might well cause Englishmen to suspect that Destiny itself worked with them, and that an Englishman could be trusted to endure through any difficulties to ...

— George Washington • William Roscoe Thayer

... and so probably unfit for wheat crops. Other subjects, as medicine, are touched on. But his prescriptions are confined to the rudest simples, to wholesome and restorative diet, and to incantations. These last have equal value assigned them with rational remedies. Whether Cato trusted them may well be doubted. He probably gave in such cases the popular charm-cure, simply from not having a better method of his ...

— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell

... flowing hair standing at the pole, looking towards me. She was the "Long Night." I remembered the names of the valiant and daring commanders who had led expeditions towards the North Pole, and had perished in their endeavors with the gallant men who had trusted and ...

— The Land of the Long Night • Paul du Chaillu

... to be manned and armed, to proceed on an excursion to Romania Point, distant about thirty miles from Sincapore. It was expected that we might there fall in with some of the piratical vessels which so completely infest the Indian Archipelago; and if so, we trusted to give them a lesson which might for a time put a check to their nefarious and cruel system of plunder and rapine. I found that my name was down in the list of the party selected for the expedition. Bidding, therefore, a temporary adieu to Sincapore, on the 2d of August we set off on the expedition, ...

— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat

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