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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Intromit

In'tro-mit', v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. INTROMITTED; p. pr. & vb. n. INTROMITTING.] [Lat. intromit-tere, intromissum, from intro, within, and mittere, to send; It. intromettere, Sp. intrometer, entrometer, Pg. intrometter, Pr. entrometre].

  1. To send in; to let in; to admit. Greenhill.
  2. To allow to enter; to be the medium by which a thing enters. “Glass in the window intromits light, without cold, to those in the room.” Holder.

In'tro-mit', v. i.

verbintransitive

(Scots Law.) To intermeddle with the effects of another.

We intromitted, as Scotch law phrases it, with many family affairs. De Quincey.