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obtrude, v.|əbˈtruːd|
[ad. L. obtrūd-ĕre, f. ob- (ob- 1 b) + trūdĕre to thrust.]
1. trans. To thrust forth; to eject, push out. Also refl.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Obtrude, thrust with violence. 1648Earl Rutland in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 3 Reasons why I ought not to be obtruded from my house at Belvoir. 1764Dunn in Phil. Trans. LIV. 115, I thought I saw a little dull tremulous vibration obtrude itself on the limb of the Sun. 1813Examiner 15 Mar. 165/2 He..ripped him open, and the bowels obtruded themselves.
2. To thrust forward forcibly or unduly; to thrust (a matter, a person, his presence, etc.) upon any one. Const. on, upon, into († to, unto).
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 86 To reject such definitions as by most wise..men have been delivered unto us, and to obtrude to us other, partly their own. a1592H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 431 As for their traditions, which they cannot prove, but obtrude unto us without testimony of Scriptures, let us contemn them. 1654Bramhall Just Vind. i. (1661) 2 To attempt..to obtrude any forrein Jurisdiction upon us. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 362 A man of low birth and high pride, obtruded on them..by the king for their general. 1791Paine Rights of Man (ed. 4) 79 Who, then, art thou,..that obtrudest thine insignificance between the soul of man and its Maker? 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. lvi. 185 Advice was obtruded on him. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xvii. 257 She asked Mr. Balfour if she could have the liberty to obtrude a matter of business upon him. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer xiii. 142 With Homer the maker's mark never obtrudes the maker, or places him between the reader and the theme.
b. refl.
1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. vii. 242 A Diversity and Order of distinct Parts.. does as naturally obtrude itself on our Imagination, in one Case as the other. 1817Parl. Deb. 756 Mr. Blake said, it was with much diffidence he obtruded himself again upon the attention of the House. 1847W. Maskell Mon. Rit. III. 86 note, Subordinate officials, who..obtruded themselves into matters beyond their office.
c. intr. (for refl.). To be or become obtrusive; to intrude, force oneself.
1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 7 To remember..with what wrongs and iniuries the familie of Aragon had obtruded upon his father. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. i. 232 With his instances and importunity, he seem'd in some measure to obtrude upon the Colledge. a1745Swift Will. II, Lett. 1768 IV. 269 Either by not thinking of religion at all; or, if it will obtrude, by putting it out of countenance. 1844R. H. Dana Changes of Home xlix, A little farther! Let us not obtrude Upon her sorrows' holy solitude.
Hence obˈtruded ppl. a., obˈtruding vbl. n.
1649Milton Eikon. xv. Wks. (1851) 451 The greatest part of Protestants were against him and his obtruded settlement. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 151 Here is no obtruding of any Various Reading out of a MS. which is not. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 134 He could crush by passion and energy such obtruding fancies. |