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Intromit definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTROMIT', v.t. [L. intromitto, supra.]
To send in; to let in; to admit.
1. To allow to enter; to be the medium by which a thing enters. Glass in the window intromits light without cold into a room.
INTROMIT', v.i. To intermeddle with the effects of another.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non- members into our club building"; "This pipe admits air" [syn: admit, allow in, let in, intromit] [ant: refuse, reject, turn away, turn down]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-mitted; -mitting) Etymology: Latin intromittere, from intro- + mittere to send Date: circa 1588 to send or put in ; insert • intromittent adjective • intromitter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (intromitted, intromitting) 1 archaic (foll. by into) let in, admit. 2 insert. Derivatives: intromission n. intromittent adj. Etymology: L intromittere intromiss- introduce (as INTRO-, mittere send)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intromit In`tro*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intromitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Intromitting.] [L. intromittere, intromissum; intro- within + mittere to send.] 1. To send in or put in; to insert or introduce. --Greenhill. 2. To allow to pass in; to admit. Glass in the window intromits light, without cold. --Holder.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intromit In`tro*mit", v. i. (Scots Law) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

Moby Thesaurus

admit, ease in, give an entree, immit, infuse, inject, inoculate, insert, insinuate, interject, introduce, let in, perfuse, pop in, put in, receive, set in, slip in, stick in, take in, throw in, throw open to, tuck in, whip in