Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TRO-RE-CEP'TION, n.

The act of admitting into or within. Hammond.

IN-TRO-SPECT', v.t. [L. introspicio; intro and specio, to look.]

To look into or within; to view the inside.

IN-TRO-SPEC'TION, n.

A view of the inside or interior. I was forced to make an introspection into my own mind. Dryden.

IN-TRO-SPECT'IVE, a.

Inspecting within.

IN-TRO-SUME', v.t. [L. intro and sumo.]

To sink in. [Not in use.]

IN-TRO-SUS'CEP'TION, or IN-TUS-SUS-CEP'TION, n.

The falling of one part of an intestine into another, or the passing of one part within another. Coxe. Hooper.

IN-TRO-VEN'IENT, a. [L. intro and veniens, venio, to come.]

Coming in or between; entering. [Little used.] Brown.

IN-TRO-VER'SION, n.

The act of turning inward. Berkeley.

IN-TRO-VERT', v.t. [L. intro and verto.]

To turn inward. Cowper.

IN-TRO-VERT'ED, pp.

Turned inward.

IN-TRO-VERT'ING, ppr.

Turning inward.

IN-TRUDE', v.i. [L. intrudo; in and trudo, to thrust. See Thrust.]

1. To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation or welcome; to enter, as into company, against the will of the company or the host; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours. Never intrude where your company is not desired.
2. To encroach; to enter or force one's self in without permission; as, to intrude on the lands of another.
3. To enter uncalled or uninvited, or without just right. Col. ii.

IN-TRUDE', v.t.

1. To thrust one's self in, or to enter into some place without right or welcome.
2. To force or cast in. Greenhill.

IN-TRUD'ED, pp.

Thrust in.

IN-TRUD'ER, n.

One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters where he has no right or is not welcome. They were but intruders on the possession, during the minority of the heir. Davies. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.

IN-TRUD'ING, ppr.

Entering without invitation, right or welcome.

IN-TRU'SION, n. [s as z. Fr. from L. intrusio, from intrudo.]

1. The action of thrusting in, or of entering into a place or state without invitation, right or welcome. The company may be disturbed by the intrusion of an unwelcome guest. Many excellent strains which have been jostled off by the intrusions of poetical fictions. Brown. Why this intrusion? / Were not my orders that I should be private? Addison.
2. Encroachment; entrance without right on the property or possessions of another.
3. Voluntary entrance on an undertaking unsuitable for the person. Wotton.

IN-TRU'SIVE, a.

Thrusting in or entering without right or welcome; apt to intrude. Thomson.

IN-TRU'SIVE-LY, adv.

Without welcome or invitation.

IN-TRU'SIVE-NESS, n.

The act of entering without permission or invitation.

IN-TRUST', v.t. [in and trust.]

To deliver in trust; to confide to the care of; to commit to another with confidence in his fidelity; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or goods, or to intrust money or goods to a servant. We intrust an agent or factor with commercial business, or we intrust commercial concerns to an agent. We intrust our friends with secrets, or intrust secrets to them.

IN-TRUST'ED, pp.

Delivered in trust; committed to the hands or care of another, in confidence that he will be faithful in discharging his duty.

IN-TRUST'ING, ppr.

Delivering in trust; confiding to the care of.

IN-TU-I'TION, n. [Sp. intuicion; L. intuitus, intueor; in and tueor.]

A looking on; a sight or view: but restricted to mental view or perception. Particularly and appropriately, the act by which the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, or the truth of things, immediately, or the moment they are presented, without the intervention of other ideas, or without reasoning and deduction. We know by intuition, that a part is less than the whole. Encyc.

IN-TU'I-TIVE, a. [Sp. and It. intuitivo; Fr. intuitif.]

1. Perceived by the mind immediately, without the intervention of argument or testimony; exhibiting truth to the mind on bare inspection; as, intuitive evidence.
2. Received or obtained by intuition or simple inspection; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge.
3. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. Hooker.
4. Having the power of discovering truth without reasoning; as, the intuitive powers of celestial beings.