[f. ENTRUST v. + -MENT.] The action of entrusting; the fact of being entrusted. Formerly also, a position of trust; a duty with which one is entrusted.
1643. Herle, Answ. Ferne, 29. ’Tis but a power of ordinary entrustment.
1657. J. Goodwin, Triers Tried, 18. God hath called or advanced them to their respective entrustments.
1657. Pettus, in Loveday’s Lett. (1663), A 3 b. I wish I had leisure to peruse the whole Packet … but … I cannot spare so much time from my Intrustment.
1877. Act 40 & 41 Vict., c. 39 § 2. Where any person has been entrusted with, etc. … any revocation of his entrustment … shall not affect the title, etc.
