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  • verb Present participle of intromit.

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Examples

  • Scotland. 28 He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.

    Waverley 2004

  • He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his meal-ark, and with two barrels, one of single, and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.

    The Waverley 1877

  • ` ` Woman, '' said Saddletree, assuming an elevated tone, to which the meridian had somewhat contributed, ` ` desist, --- I say forbear, from intromitting with affairs thou canst not understand.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his meal-ark, and with two barrels, one of single, and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.

    Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

  • Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • I never tire of intromitting a hardboiled egg into a milk bottle, shell and all (soak the egg for 24 hours in vinegar to soften, drop a spliff of burning paper into the empty bottle, set the egg on top and wait while the burning paper consumes the oxygen, creating a vacuum that sucks the egg inside.

    Playing With Our Food 2007

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