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intromit, v.|ɪntrəʊˈmɪt|
Forms: α. 5 intromete, 5–7 Sc. intromet, 6 Sc. intromeit, intrommet, 6–7 Sc. intromett; β. 5–6 intromitte, 6 -myt, 6– intromit.
[ad. L. intrōmitt-ĕre to send in, let in or into, introduce, f. intrō + mittĕre to send. In part a refashioning after L. of the earlier entermete (entremet, entromyt) q.v.]
1. trans. To cause or allow to enter; to put in, introduce, interpose, insert; to send or let in, admit. Now rare.
1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 27 Shoe was perswadit be these that were hir keeperis, and vthers intromettit for that purpois. 1612R. Carpenter Soules Sent. 74 Shall wee presumptuouslie intromit our ouer-weening curiosity? 1615Crooke Body of Man 945 The fourth hole..intromitteth the Iugular veine. 1647H. More Poems, Cupid's Confl. lxxvii, Whether our reasons eye be clear enough To intromit true light. 1747Gentl. Mag. 528 Indeed, some diseases not cutaneous may be intromitted thro' the skin. 1895B. F. Barrett Quest. Answ. 119 This is the way..in which he [Swedenborg] was himself intromitted into the spiritual world.
†2. refl. To interfere (with or in something).
1492Plumpton Corr. 201, I desire and pray you noe further to intromete you with the sayd land and right of his church. 1531Cranmer Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 229 Where⁓fore he had never pleasure to intromit himself in this cause. 1535Coverdale Isa. xxx. 10 They darre saye to the prophetes: Intromitte youre selues with nothinge. 1657Twysden Vind. Ch. (1847) 100 [He] did then intromit himself and his agents in the raising of it and so did convert some good proportion to his own use.
3. intr. for refl. To interfere, intermeddle, have to do with. (Now only Sc.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 153 The lawe of feldes..that þe senate scholde not intromitte of the feldes of eny man dyenge whom he hade afore in his lyfe. 1492Plumpton Corr. 264 Willinge and desyreinge you, therefore, that..yee will in noe wise further intromete or deale with the said land. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 20 §3 No sheryffe..shall in any wyse intromyt or medel in, with, or vpon any of y⊇ premisses. 1560in Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 3 Nor yitt sall intromett.. anie maner of way with the querrells and discords of the lords. 1572Act 14 Eliz. c. 5 §38 The Justices..within any County..shall not intromit or enter into any City..where be any Justice..for any such City. 1623W. Sclater Tythes 197 He would..intromit in a quaestion proper to a higher profession. 1814Scott Wav. x, A whiggish mob..plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his meal-ark. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 197 Saint Felix who intromitted so improperly with the loves of his niece and Monsieur Pappolen. a1847Chalmers Posth. Wks. I. 61 It is patent from these verses that God intromitted with Jacob on the matter of his leaving Laban.
b. Sc. Law. To have (pecuniary) dealings, to deal with; esp. to deal with property or effects; either legally as administrator, agent, etc., or viciously without legal right.
1522in Balfour Practicks (1754) 51 The Provest..and communitie of Edinburgh, hes gude richt, title and power to buy, sell, or utherwayis to intromet with schipis of weirfair..within the read, havin or port of Leyth. 1569in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 40 That the poore labourers may intromett with their awin teindis upon a reasonable composition. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 25 The wife..may not take vp [the dowrie], nor intromet with the frutes thereof, induring her husbands lifetime, bot her husband sall intromit therewith, for sustentation of his wife and familie. 1664J. Carstares in R. H. Story W. Carstares (1874) 373, I leave my loving and faithfull spouse..my sole executrix, to intromett with my goods and gear. 1772Johnson in Boswell Argt. case vicious Intromission, He who never intromits at all will never intromit viciously. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §163 If an heir who has the right of abstaining have once intromitted with hereditary effects,..he has not the power of afterwards relinquishing the inheritance.
Hence introˈmitted ppl. a.; -ˈmitting vbl. n.
1450–70Golagros & Gaw. 1171 And alse the meryest on mold has intrometting. 1706J. Sergeant Acc. Chapter (1853) 109 The new intromitted jurisdiction took place and governed. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. viii. 189 Certain rays of the intromitted pencil are absorbed or lost. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. vi. §23 (1873) 239 This intromitted portion is single. |