intromit
English
    
    Etymology
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˌɪntɹəˈmɪt/
Verb
    
intromit (third-person singular simple present intromits, present participle intromitting, simple past and past participle intromitted)
- (law, Scotland) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
- (transitive) To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.
- 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:- this Bird has been often observ’d, by means of his crooked Bill intromitted into the Anus, to inject salt Water, as with a Syringe, into its own Bowels, and thereby to exonerate its Paunch when too much obstructed.
 
 
- (transitive) To allow to pass in; to admit.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:- Glass in the window […] intromits Light, without Cold.
 
 
Translations
    
to insert or introduce
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References
    
- “intromit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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