Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TRIGUE', v.t. [intree'g.]

To perplex or render intricate. [Not used.] L. Addison.

IN-TRIGU'ER, n. [intree'ger.]

One who intrigues; one who forms plots, or pursues an object by secret artifices.

IN-TRIGU'ING, ppr. [intreeg'ing.]

1. Forming secret plots or schemes.
2. adj. Addicted to intrigue; given to secret machinations.

IN-TRIGU'ING-LY, adv. [intree'gingly.]

With intrigue; with artifice or secret machinations.

IN-TRIN'SE-CATE, a.

Entangled; perplexed. [Not in use.]

IN-TRIN'SIC, or IN-TRIN'SIC-AL, a. [Fr. intrinseque; Sp. intrinseco; It. intrinsico; L. intrinsecus; intra and secus. It was formerly written Intrinsecal.]

1. Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not apparent or accidental; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. Prior.
2. Intimate; closely familiar. [Obs.] Wotton.

IN-TRIN'SIC-AL-LY, adv.

Internally; in its nature; really; truly. A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil. South.

IN-TRO-DUCE', v.t. [L. introduco; intro, within, and duco, to lead; Fr. introduire; It. introdurre.]

1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher into a place; as, to introduce a person into a drawing- room.
2. To conduct and make known; to bring to be acquainted; as, to introduce a stranger to a person; to introduce a foreign minister to a prince.
3. To bring something new into notice or practice; as, to introduce a new fashion, or a new remedy for a disease; to introduce an improved mode of tillage.
4. To bring in; to import; as, to introduce foreign goods.
5. To produce; to cause to exist; as, to introduce habits into children. Locke.
6. To begin; to open to notice. He introduced the subject with a long preface.
7. To bring before the public by writing or discourse; as, to introduce one's self to notice or to the public.

IN-TRO-DUC'ED, pp.

Led or conducted in; brought in; made acquainted; imported.

IN-TRO-DUC'ER, n.

One who introduces; one who conducts another to a place or person; one who makes strangers known to each other; one who brings any thing into notice or practice.

IN-TRO-DUC'ING, ppr.

Conducting or bringing in; making known, as one stranger to another; bringing any thing into notice or practice.

IN-TRO-DUC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. introductio.]

1. The action of conducting or ushering into a place; used of persons. We speak of the introduction of one stranger to another; the introduction of a foreign minister to a prince or court, and the introduction of company to a levee.
2. The act of bringing into a country; as, the introduction of gold or bullion, or of merchandise.
3. The act of bringing something into notice, practice or use; as, the introduction of new modes of dress or of tillage.
4. The part of a book which precedes the main work; a preface or preliminary discourse.
5. That part of an oration or discourse, in which the speaker gives some general account of his design and subject, and prepares the minds of his audience for a favorable reception of his remarks or arguments.

IN-TRO-DUC'TIVE, a.

Serving to introduce; serving as the means to bring forward something. Lowth.

IN-TRO-DUCT'IVE-LY, adv.

In a manner serving to introduce.

IN-TRO-DUC'TOR, n.

An introducer. [Not used.]

IN-TRO-DUCT'O-RI-LY, adv.

By way of introduction.

IN-TRO-DUC'TO-RY, a.

Serving to introduce something else; previous; prefatory; preliminary; as, introductory remarks; an introductory discourse.

IN-TRO-FLEX'ED, a.

Flexed or bent inward.

IN-TRO-GRES'SION, n. [L. introgression.]

Entrance. [Not used.]

IN-TROIT', n. [Fr. from L. introitus.]

In the Romish service, the entrance or beginning of the mass.

IN-TRO-MIS'SION, n. [L. intromissus, intromitto; intro and mitto, to send.]

1. The action of sending in. Peacham.
2. In Scots law, an intermeddling with the effects of another. Johnson.

IN-TRO-MIT', v.i.

To intermeddle with the effects of another.

IN-TRO-MIT', v.t. [L. intromitto, supra.]

To send in; to let in; to admit. Greenhill. To allow to enter; to be the medium by which a thing enters. Glass in the window intromits light without cold into a room.

IN-TRO-MIT'TED, pp.

Allowed to enter.

IN-TRO-MIT'TING, ppr.

1. Admitting.
2. Intermeddling with the effects of another.