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intrant, n. and a. Chiefly Sc.|ˈɪntrənt|
See also entrant.
[ad. L. intrānt-em, pr. pple. of intrāre to enter.]
A. n.
1. One who enters:
a. One who comes in, as into a room; an incomer (rare).
1663Sir G. Mackenzie Relig. Stoica xx. (1685) 162 That curious Painter; who having drawn an excellent face..did thereafter dash it afresh upon the suggesion of each intrant. a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 275 A pleasure garden, in which the intrants having presented their symbolum portæ..walk at large.
b. One who enters a college or institution, or an association or body.
1560in Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iii. (1677) 163 The Beddale shall have for his stipend 2s. Scots, of every Intrant and Suppost of the University. 1831Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 427 The ‘Excerpta Statutorum’ which the intrant receives at matriculation. 1859Masson Milton I. 87 The school in which the intrant had been previously educated is specified. 1879Gladstone Gleanings VII. 202 The door was barred against intrants, and there was consequently no succession to maintain the school.
c. One who enters into holy orders.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 19 Some..did afterwards compell Ministers and intrants to subscryve to the verie contrair Conclusions. 1730Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 466 We have much reason to pray earnestly for intrants to the ministry. 1761–2Hume Hist. England liii. (1806) IV. 120 A new oath was arbitrarily imposed on intrants, by which they swore to observe the articles of Perth, and submit to the liturgy and canons.
d. One who makes legal entry; one who enters into the possession of land, etc.
1592Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 623/2 Quhilk pensioun wes disponit..to the said williame for all the dayis of his lyftyme be provisioun furth of þe court of Rome, wt consent of the intrant. 1880Muirhead Ulpian i. §21 Nor is such a gift valid if introduced between two institutions, and both the heirs enter; but it was, according to the old rule, if the sole intrant was the heir first instituted.
†2. Formerly, in the University of St. Andrews; a student chosen by each nation for the election of the Rector. Obs.
1806Forsyth Beauties Scot. IV. 92 Each nation [of the university of St. Andrews] chooses an intrant, and the four intrants name the rector. 1819T. Mc Crie Melville I. iv. 213 These elected annually four intrants or electors by whom the rector was chosen.
B. adj. Entering; that enters.
1828Webster, Intrant, entering, penetrating. |