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Intromission   Listen
noun
Intromission  n.  
1.
The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.
2.
Specifically; (Zool.) The insertion of the male copulatory organ into the female in the process of coitus. "Four populations (of the vlei rat) varied in a number of parameters of copulatory behavior, such as latency to first mount, number of intromissions per series, and latency to intromission after first ejaculation."
3.
The act of letting go in; admission.
4.
(Scots Law) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.





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"Intromission" Quotes from Famous Books



... intromission to our face, and in our council too?" cried the baron. "Seize that hooded kite, knaves, or I will hang every one o' ye on the Furca ere the ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... eminencies, pressing down the incumbent particles so tainted, or convey'd through the inclosed valleys: But such as may gently enter and pervade the cenabs and vessels destin'd and appointed for their reception, intromission, respiration, and passage, in almost continual motion: In a word, such as is most agreeable to the life of man, the inverted head compared to the root, both vegetables and animals alike affected with those necessary principles, air ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... primarily concern Great Britain and British subjects, and as a well-founded and reasonable jealousy exists in Great Britain of American intromission in the affairs of Ireland, it is proper for me to say at the outset, that the condition of Ireland interests me not because I believe, with Cardinal Manning, that upon the future of Ireland hangs the future of the British Empire, but because I know ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert


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