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Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.

That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.

With distrust or suspicion.

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted. [Obs.] Chipman.

The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.

The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay.

ly cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith.

f questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins.

r of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. Milton.

conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." W. Black.

Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. (Math.) See under Function.

of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably. There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases. L' Estrange.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to Ant: solifidian. Feltham.

Trusting beforehand; hence, overconfident. [Obs.] Baxter.

Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. Rom. ii. 2. I'm sure care 's an enemy of life. Shak.

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. Dryden.