intromission /-mishˈən/ noun

1. Introduction
2. Insertion
3. In Scots law, the assumption of authority to deal with another's property (legal intromission where the party is expressly or impliedly authorized to interfere, vicious intromission where an heir or next of kin, without any authority, interferes with a deceased person's estate)
4. The proceeds of such interference

intromissˈive adjective

1. Relating to intromission
2. Intromitting

intromittˈent adjective

1. Intromitting
2. Adapted for insertion, esp (zoology) in copulation

intromittˈer noun

vicious /vishˈəs/

1. Malignant, spiteful, cruel
2. Bad-tempered
3. Addicted to vice or bad habits
4. Immoral, depraved
5. Bad
6. Faulty
7. (also vitˈious) impaired, nullified by a flaw, unlawful (law)
8. Mistaken (Shakespeare)
9. Foul, impure, morbid (obsolete medicine, etc)

vicˈiously adverb

vicˈiousness noun

vicious circle noun

1. Reasoning in a circle, seeking to prove a proposition by means of a conclusion drawn from it
2. A process in which an evil is aggravated by its own consequences

vicious intromission see under intromit