<B>intrigue, </B>noun, verb, <B>-trigued,</B> <B>-triguing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>secret scheming and plotting; crafty dealing. <BR> <I>Ex. The royal palace was filled with intrigue.</I> (SYN) conspiracy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a crafty plot; secret scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. The king's younger brother took part in the intrigue to make himself king.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a secret love affair. <BR> <I>Ex. the intrigue between a man and his mistress.</I> (SYN) liaison. <DD><B> 4. </B>the plot of a play, dramatic poem, or other literary piece, especially the development of a complex situation. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to form and carry out plots; plan ina secret or underhand way. <BR> <I>Ex. He pretended to be loyal while he intrigued against his employer. He will fight openly, but he is too honorable to intrigue against you.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to have a secret love affair. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to excite the curiosity and interest of. <BR> <I>Ex. The book's unusual title intrigued me into reading it.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to bring or get by intrigue. <BR> <I>Ex. to intrigue a person out of office.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to puzzle; perplex. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) to trick; cheat. noun <B>intriguer.</B> </DL>
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<B>intriguing, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> exciting the curiosity and interest. <BR> <I>Ex. The book's intriguing title caught my attention. Astronomers may get their clearest look so far at the intriguing planet Mars (Wall Street Journal).</I> adv. <B>intriguingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>intrinsic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>belonging to a thing by its very nature; essential; inherent. <BR> <I>Ex. The intrinsic value of a dollar bill is the cost of the paper it's printed on.</I> (SYN) innate, ingrained. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Anatomy.) originating or being inside the part on which it acts. <BR> <I>Ex. the intrinsic muscles of the larynx.</I> adv. <B>intrinsically.</B> noun <B>intrinsicalness.</B> </DL>
<B>intrinsic factor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a substance secreted in the stomach that is needed for the utilization of vitamin B-12 by the body. Lack of it causes pernicious anemia. </DL>
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<B>intro, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tros.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a social introduction. <BR> <I>Ex. Thank you, headmaster, for that very, very kind intro (Punch).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an introductory passage of music. </DL>
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<B>intro-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (prefix.) inwardly; within; into; inward, as in <I>introvert, introduce, introduction.</I> </DL>
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<B>intro.</B> or <B>introd.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>introduction. <DD><B> 2. </B>introductory. </DL>
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<B>introduce, </B>transitive verb, <B>-duced,</B> <B>-ducing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to bring in. <BR> <I>Ex. She introduced a story into the conversation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put in; insert. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor introduced a long tube into the sick man's throat so he could breathe.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to bring into use, notice, or knowledge. <BR> <I>Ex. to introduce a new fashion, to introduce a new food, to introduce a reform. Television and space travel are introducing many new words into our language.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to make known. <BR> <I>Ex. The principal introduced the speaker to the students.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to bring (a person) to the knowledge or acquaintance of something. <BR> <I>Ex. I introduced my country cousin to the city by showing him the sights.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to bring forward forconsideration. <BR> <I>Ex. to introduce a question for debate, to introduce a bill to the legislature.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>to present formally. <BR> <I>Ex. The girl was introduced to society at her debut.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>to begin; start. <BR> <I>Ex. He introduced his speech by telling a joke. Relative pronouns introduce adjective clauses.</I> noun <B>introducer.</B> adj. <B>introducible,</B> <B>introduceable.</B> </DL>
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<B>introduction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of introducing. <BR> <I>Ex. The introduction of steel as a building material made very tall buildings possible.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or state of being introduced. <BR> <I>Ex. She was shy at her introduction to the company.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the beginning of a speech, piece of music, or a book, leading up to the main part. <DD><B> 4. </B>a first book for beginners; book that explains the elementary principles of a subject. <BR> <I>Ex. an introduction to the study of botany.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a thing made known; thing brought into use. <BR> <I>Ex. Television is a later introduction than radio.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>the formal presentation of one person to another or others. <BR> <I>Ex. The hostess made brief introductions as the guests arrived.</I> </DL>
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<B>introductive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> introductory. <BR> <I>Ex. Laws, when prudently framed, are by no means subversive but rather introductive of liberty (William Blackstone).</I> </DL>
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<B>introductorily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an introductory manner; by way of introduction. </DL>
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<B>introductory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> used to introduce; serving as an introduction; preliminary. <BR> <I>Ex. an introductory chapter. The speaker began his talk with a few introductory remarks about his subject.</I> (SYN) prefatory, precursory. </DL>
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<B>introgressant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gene which is acquired by a species through introgression. </DL>
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<B>introgression, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Genetics.) the introduction, often by chance backcrossing, of the genes of one species into another species. </DL>
<B>introit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Also, <B>Introit.</B> (in the Roman Catholic Church) a hymn or responsive anthem recited by the priest at the beginning of Mass or sung by the choir at High Mass. It consists of a verse or antiphon, a verse from the Psalms, the Gloria Patri, and the first verse again. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in the Anglican Church) a psalm or anthem at the beginning of the Communion service. </DL>
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<B>introject, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Psychology.) to take in and absorb into the unconscious (the attitudes of other persons or the characteristics of outside objects). <DD><B> 2. </B>to incorporate (any idea, feeling, or belief). <BR> <I>Ex. We have introjected an even stronger dose of nostalgia into the Pax Britannica ... than when the [Forsyte] Saga appeared as a whole in 1922 (Cyril Connolly).</I> </DL>
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<B>introjection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of introjecting. </DL>
<B>intromittent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that intromits. </DL>
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<B>intromitter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that intromits. </DL>
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<B>intron, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a segment of DNA that has no specific genetic code; intervening sequence. <BR> <I>Ex. One possibility is that some of the introns are promoters--regions of DNA where the enzyme RNA polymerase first binds to a gene before transcribing it. Introns may also play a role in control of gene expression (Thomas H. Maugh II).</I> </DL>
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<B>intropunitive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inflicting punishment upon oneself, especially subconsciously; having feelings of guilt and self-blame. <BR> <I>Ex. an intropunitive criminal.</I> noun <B>intropunitiveness.</B> </DL>
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<B>introrse, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) turned or facing inward, toward the axis. A violet has introrse anthers. adv. <B>introrsely.</B> </DL>
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<B>introscope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument that allows a view of the interior of a tube or cavity by means of an adjustable objective lens and a system of mirrors to reflect light rays into the tube. </DL>
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<B>introspect, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to look within; be introspective. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to look into; examine. </DL>
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<B>introspection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the examination of one's own thoughts and feelings. <BR> <I>Ex. Philosophical people are given to introspection. I was forced to make an introspection into mine own mind (John Dryden).</I> </DL>
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<B>introspectional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with introspection. </DL>
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<B>introspectionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine that introspection and the mental content of experience is the chief subject matter of psychological study. adj., n. <B>introspectionist.</B> </DL>
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<B>introspective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inclined to examine one's own thoughts and feelings; characterized by introspection. <BR> <I>Ex. an introspective essay.</I> adv. <B>introspectively.</B> noun <B>introspectiveness.</B> </DL>
