intromit

English

Etymology

Latin intromittere.

Verb

intromit (third-person singular simple present intromits, present participle intromitting, simple past and past participle intromitted)

  1. (law, Scotland) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
  2. (transitive) To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.
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  3. (transitive) To allow to pass in; to admit.
    • Holder
      Glass in the window intromits light, without cold.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for intromit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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