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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Confide

Con·fide′ (kŏn·fīd′), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confided; p. pr. & vb. n. Confiding.] [L. confidere; con- + fidere to trust. See Faith, and cf. Affiance.] To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; — usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

By thy command I rise or fall, In thy protection I confide. Byron.

Judge before friendships, then confide till death. Young.

Con·fide′, v. t. To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; — followed by to.

Congress may . . . confide to the Circuit jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States. Story.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.