Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To cause or permit to enter; introduce or admit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To send or put in; insert or introduce within.
  • To allow to enter; be the medium by which a thing enters.
  • In Scots and old English law, to interfere with the effects of another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb (Scots Law) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
  • transitive verb To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.
  • transitive verb To allow to pass in; to admit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb law, Scotland To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb allow to enter; grant entry to

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English intromitten, to deal illegally with others, from Latin intrōmittere, to send in, let into : intrō-, in; see en in Indo-European roots + mittere, to send.]

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Examples

  • You were to learn what you could of the Pretender's movements, and incidentally you were to intromit with certain of our settled agents at Versailles.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • He who never intromits at all, will never intromit with fraudulent intentions.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • ` ` Truly, my honest friend, '' said Dalgetty, ` ` if that is your best recommendation to Sir Duncan's favour, I would pretermit my pleading thereupon, in respect I have observed that even the animal creation are incensed against those who intromit with their offspring forcibly, much more any rational and

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • Mrs. Tappitt had frequently offered to intromit the ceremony when calling upon his generosity for other purposes, but the September gift had always been forthcoming.

    Rachel Ray, volume 1 1863

  • Mrs Tappitt had frequently offered to intromit the ceremony when calling upon his generosity for other purposes, but the September gift had always been forthcoming.

    Rachel Ray 1863

  • Surrogating and substituting the said Gilbert Burns my brother and his foresaids in my full right, title, room and place of the whole premises, with power to him to intromit with, and dispose upon the same at pleasure, and in general to do every other thing in the premises that I could have done myself before granting hereof, but always with and under the conditions before expressed.

    The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

  • He who never intromits at all, will never intromit with fraudulent intentions.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

  • "Qui sibi bene temperat in licitis," says one of the fathers, "nunquam cadet in illicita:" he who never intromits at all, will never intromit with fraudulent intentions.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

  • The temptation to intromit is frequent and strong; so strong and so frequent, as to require the utmost activity of justice, and vigilance of caution, to withstand its prevalence; and the method by which a man may entitle himself to legal intromission, is so open and so facile, that to neglect it is a proof of fraudulent intention: for why should a man omit to do (but for reasons which he will not confess,) that which he can do so easily, and that which he knows to be required by the law?

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • “Truly, my honest friend,” said Dalgetty, “if that is your best recommendation to Sir Duncan’s favour, I would pretermit my pleading thereupon, in respect I have observed that even the animal creation are incensed against those who intromit with their offspring forcibly, much more any rational and Christian creatures, who have had violence done upon their small family.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

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