misconfide

Verb

misconfide (third-person singular simple present misconfides, present participle misconfiding, simple past and past participle misconfided)

1. To confide in someone who does not deserve such trust.
   • Though nothing can be more illegal than misconfiding to the gaoler, by the second clause of the act relating to the management of gaols—the 5th and 6th William IV,— a power which is taken from the local magistrates themselves by the Abolition Act, namely, that of punishing the apprentices; yet a...1838, Jamaica under the apprenticeship system, page 25
   • An effort, so scandalous to the system of representative guardians, to pervert the trust which has been misconfided to them, would, in our opinion, fully justify the Poor-law Commissioners in refusing their assent to the election.1867 August 21, “A Dispensary Election”, in The Medical Press & Circular, volume 2, page 181