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coral found at Bayonne, which he calls Intricaria Bayo- INTRIIN- with, enclose in, to fortify with trenches, with ditches, Very rare, and only known by the description Also, nensis. up. TRENCH. with earth, &c. cut or dug out, and thrown to cut or carve out, sc. the property or right of another; CARIA. and, thus, to encroach, to trespass upon.

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It is not easily apprehended to be the portion of her care to give it spiritual milk, and therefore it intrenches very much upon impiety and positive relinquishing the education of their children.

Taylor. The Great Exemplar, part i. disc. 1. fol. 39.

MACB. Thou loosest labour,

As easie may'st thou the intrenchant ayre
With thy keene sword impresse, as make me bleed.
Shakspeare. Macbeth, fol. 151.

But when thou turn'st a real Inigo,
Or canst of truth the least intrenchment pitch,
We'll have thee styl'd the Marquis of Town-ditch.

Ben Jonson. To Inigo Marquis Would-Be.

We dare not on your privilege intrench,
Or ask you why ye like them? they are French.

Dryden. Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia.
Intrench'd before the town, both armies lie:
While night, with sable wings, involves the sky.
Id. Virgil. Eneid, book xi.

He sent away the baggage and heavy cannon to Mechlin; and
spent the whole night in planting batteries and casting up intrench-

ments.

Burnet. Own Times. William and Mary, Anno 1693. Which of them is most absurd is easily understood, but which of them the most presuming, is hard to say for if the one intrenches upon heaven, the other ventures to insult common sense.

Sermon 9. Spiritual gibberish is still better intrenched, and harder to be approached, for its having no weak side of common sense.

Warburton. Works, vol. ix. p. 195.

Id. Ib. Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester.
Cæsar forced some of their strongest intrenchments; and then
carried the war directly into the territories of Cassibelan.
Burke. Works, vol. x. p. 176. An Abridgement of English History.
Fr. intrepide; Sp. and It. intre-
INTREPID,
INTREPIDITY, Epido; Lat. intrepidus, in, privative,
INTRE PIDLY. and trepidus, from trepidare, to
tremble.

Without trembling, firm, resolute, daring, bold, fear-
less.

That quality, [valour,] which signifies no more than an intrepid courage, may be separated from many others which are good, and accompanied with many which are ill.

Dryden. Eneid. Dedication.

Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with a
look of much business and great intrepidity.
Spectator, No. 122. col. 3.

Whate'er cool thought or strength of nerve supply'd,
Intrepid Brandimart had vainly try'd;

Till forc'd at length to give the tempest way,
Slow he recedes, and scarce resigns the day.
Hoole. Orlando Furioso, book xxvii.

While he assumes the appearance of intrepidity before the world,
he trembles within himself; and the bold and steady eye of integrity
frequently darts terrour into his heart.

Blair. Sermon 7. vol. iii. p. 97.
Orlando, determined to pursue his purpose, rushed forward intre-
pidly with his lifted shield, on which he received the arrow that fell
ineffectual to the ground.
Hoole. Orlando Furioso, book xix. note 8.

INTRICARIA, in Zoology, a genus of fossil, stony
corals, belonging to the family Milleporida.

Generic character. Coral stony, not flexible, internally solid, formed of cylindrical branches, anastomosing, and forming a net; cells hexagonal, elongated, covering the surface of the branches, and furnished with a raised edge.

The genus is established by Defranc for a kind of

of Defranc.
INTRICATE, v. ]

INTRICATE, adj.
INTRICATELY,
INTRICATENESS,
INTRICACY,
INTRICATION,
INTRICATING.

rally, any intanglements.

Intryke (Sir T. More) is also
Fr. in-
written Entrick, q. v.
triquer; It. intrigare; Sp. in-
tricar; a tricis sunt intricare,
pro impedire; et extricare pro
expedire. See EXTRICATE. Tri-
ca; Gr. Tpixes, hairs; gene-

To intangle, to perplex, to involve, to inwrap.

As willye as those shrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter, I shall vse so playn and open a way therin, that euery man shall well see the trouth.

Sir Thomas More. Workes, fol. 1004. The Debellacion of Sulem
and Byzance.

They haue baculum pastoralem to take sheepe with, for it is intri-
cate and manifold crooked.
His Articles condemned by Popishe
Barnes. Workes, fol. 214.
Byshoppes.

For the auoydyng of all intricacion, wherof I purposelye forbare to putte in the pope as parte of the diffinicyon of the church, as a thyng that neded not, sith if he be the necessary headde, he is included in the name of the whole bodye.

Sir Thomas More. Workes, fol. 615. The second Part of the Confutation of Tyndall.

When this by-path of cunning doth's embroil,

And intricate the passage of affairs,

As that they seldom fairly can get out.

Daniel. To Lord Henry Howard.

The which of many things that in him be strange, I know will ́ seeme the strangest; the wordes themselues beeing so ancient, the knitting of them so short and intricate, and the whole period and compasse of his speech so delightsome for the roundnesse, and so graue for the strangenesse. Spenser. E. K. to Maister Gabriel Harvey. The sword (whereto they only had recourse) Must cut this knot so intricately ty'd, Whose vain contrived ends are plain descry'd.

Daniel. History of Civil Wars, book vii.

It were a great pursuance and security of this part of Christian religion, if in no case contrary oaths might be admitted, in which it is certain one part is perjured to the ruine of their souls, to the intricating of the judgement, to the dishonour of religion.

Taylor. The Great Exemplar, part. ii. sec. 22. p. 328.
The genuine notion of mistion, though much intricated by the
schoolmen, I take in short to be this.
The Sceptical Chymist.
Boyle. Works, vol. i. p.
The sense is intricate, 'tis only clear
What vowels and what consonants are there.

502.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther.

I demand whether it be better to have the axis of the earth steady and perpetually parallel to itself, or to have it carelessly tumble this way and that way as it happens, or at least very variously and intricately. Ray. Of the Creation, part ii. p. 227. SOPHR. I understand your pleasure, Eugenius, and shall endeavour to comply with it; but the difficulty and intricateness of the subject of our discourse obliges me to do it by steps.

Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 413. A Discourse of Things above Reason.

I confess I do not see how the motus circularis simplex should need to be superadded to the contact or intrication of the cohering firm corpuscles, to procure a cohesion.

Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 240. An Examen of Mr. Hobbes's Dialogue. The modern tragedy excells that of Greece and Rome in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the Spectator, No. 39. col. 1. performance.

While winding now and intricate,
Now more develop'd and in state,
Th' united stream, with rapid force,
Pursues amain its downward course.

Jago. Labour and Genius.

CARIA.

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Many who toil through the intricacy of complicated systems are insuperably embarrassed with the least perplexity in common affairs. Johnson. The Rambler, No. 180. INTRIGUE, v.` Fr. intriguer, which Menage INTRIGUE, n. derives from the Lat. intric-are, INTRIGUER. to intricate, q. v. and he is undoubtedly right, though Lye, after Hickes, would refer it to the same origin as the English truce, i. e. the Goth. trau-an; A. S. treou-an, fidem habere, fidem dare, to plight one's troth. Intrigue (so written) is comparatively modern. See INTRICATE.

To intangle, to perplex, to involve; to carry on secret plots or concealed designs, plans, or schemes.

The third aet makes a visible correspondence in the under-walks (or lesser intrigues) of persons, and ends with an ample turn of the main design, and expectation of a new.

Davenant. Preface to Gondibert.

In a word, how doth it perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives, and intangle ye in a labyrinth of knavish tricks and collusions; so that many times you are at your wits end, and know not which way to turn yourselves.

Scott. Of the Christian Life, part i. ch. iv. fol. 119.

But though this vicinity of ourselves to ourselves cannot give us the full prospect of all the intrigues of our nature, yet we have thereby, and by other opportunities, much more advantage to know ourselves, than to know other things without us.

Hale. Origination of Mankind, ch. i. fol. 21.
Whose names the Muse disdaining, holds i' th' dark,
Thrust in the villain herd without a mark;
With parasites and libel-spawning imps,
Intriguing fops, dull jesters, and worse pimps.

Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel.

It cannot be imagined but the pope would be offended with this proposition, and apprehend that the cardinal of York was not satisfied to be intriguing for the popedom after his death, but was aspiring to it while he was alive.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, Anno 1527.
Not prone to lust, revenge, or envious hate,
Nor busy medlers with intrigues of state.

Pomfret. The Choice.

It cannot be unknown to the nobility and gentry, that a gentleman of the Inns of Court, and a deep intriguer, had some time since worked himself into the sole management and direction of the theatre. Tatler, No. 193. col. 2.

And if a teou (slave) be caught in an intrigue with a woman of the blood-royal, he is put to death.

Cook. Voyages, vol. vi. book iii. ch. ix. p. 157. Not a commercial, but a martial republick-a republick not of simple husbandmen or fishermen, but of intriguers and warriors. Burke. Works, vol. viii. p. 261. On a Regicide Peace. INTRINSICK, Fr. intrinseque; It. and Sp. INTRINSICAL, intrinsico; Lat. intrinsecus, i. e. INTRINSICAL, N. secus interna, (Vossius,) qua INTRINSICALLY, secus notat, juxta, prope, secundum; near to, close to, sc. the internal or inward parts. Inward, internal; pertaining or belonging to the inward or internal qualities, the essential, the substantial qualities, the qualities constituting the nature of the thing; and, hence, essential, natural.

INTRINSICATE, INTRI'NCE.

Intrince, (in Shakspeare,) and intrinsecate, inwardly wrought, closely tied.

Hys workinge toles are such vnsauerye sophismes, problemes, subtyltyes, seconde intentions, intryncicall moodes, wyth other prodigi

ouse scorceries.

Bale. Image, part ii. Preface, sig. A. 4.

Such smiling rogues as these,

Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a twaine,

Which are t' intrince t' vnloose.

Shakspeare. King Lear, fol. 292.

For if a groom serve a gentleman in his chamber, that gentleman a lord, and that lord a prince, the groom, the gentleman, and the lord are as much servants one as the other; the circumstantial of the one's getting only his bread and wages, the second a plentiful, and the third a superfluous estate, is no more intrinsical to this matter, than the difference between a plain, a rich, and gaudy livery. Cowley. Essays. Of Liberty.

This history will display the very intrinsicals of the Castilian, who goes for the prime Spaniard. Howell. Letter 11. book iv.

If the things exciting the ordinary actions of life did appear with no greater elevation than possibly they really and intrinsically bear, the most part of mankind would sit still and do nothing.

Hale. Contemplations, vol. ii. p. 77.

Come, thou mortal wretch,

With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate,
Of life at once vntie.

Shakspeare. Anthony and Cleopatra, fol. 367.

AMO. I confesse you to be of an aped and docible humour; yet there are certain puntilioes, or (as I may more nakedly insinuate them) certain intrinsecate strokes and wards, to which your activitie is not yet amounted. Ben Jonson. Cynthia's Revells, act. v. sc. 2.

And though to be thus elemented arm

These creatures from home-born intrinsic harm.
Donne. An Anatomy of the World. Anniversary 1.

A great many excellent writings were arraigned, and as many very indifferent ones applauded, more (as it seem'd to me) upon the account of their date, than upon any intrinsick value or demerit.

Guardian, No. 25.

The heaviness of a body, or (as Aristotle defines it) the proneness of it to tend down unto some centre, is not any absolute quality intrinsical unto it.

Wilkins. Mathematical Works, vol. i. p. 113. That the Moon may be a World.

He endeavours to impose it upon his reader as a thing taken for granted, that moral necessity and physical necessity do not differ intrinsically in their own nature, but only with regard to the subject they are applied to.

Clarke. Remarks upon a Philosophical Enquiry.

There are some attributes of mind which have a real and intrinsic excellence, compared with their contraries, and which, in every degree, are the natural objects of esteem, but, in an uncommon degree, are objects of admiration. We put a value upon them because they are intrinsically valuable and excellent.

Reid. Of the Human Mind, vol. ii. ch. iii. p. 485. es. 8. Of Grandeur.

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The fift party shal been an introductory, after the statutes of our doctours, on which thou mayest learn a great part of the generall rules of theorike in astrologie.

Chaucer. Of the Astrolabie, fol. 262. The haue ye his introduccion into Sayncte Poules pistle, with which he introduceth and bringeth bis reders into a false vnderstanding of Saynt Poule.

Sir Thomas More. Workes, fol. 341. The first Part of the Confu tation of Tyndall.

All verse is but a frame of words confined within certain measure,

differing from the ordinary speech, and introduced the better to express men's conceits, both for delight and memory.

Daniel. Defence of Rhyme. To the Earl of Pembroke. The beginning of the Earl of Essex I must attribute wholly or in great part to my Lord of Leicester; but yet as an introducer, or supporter, not as a teacher. Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 162.

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Hatred of idolatry is (made) the huisher of sacriledge and the de-
fiance of superstition the introducer of profanenesse.
Taylor. The Great Exemplar, part i. sec. 13. p. 156.
The way propounded is plain, easy, and open before us; without
intricacies, without the introducement of new or absolute forms or
terms, or exotic models.

Milton. Works, vol. i. fol. 595. The ready and easy Way to esta-
blish a Free Commonwealth.

And to say a truth, good reason have they so to deeme of sophis-
ters, who are no sooner out of their chaires, or come down from off
the pulpit, and when their books, and pretty introductions are laid
out of their hands, but in other serious actions and parts of this life to
be discoursed of, a man shall find them as raw as other, and nothing
better skilled than the vulgar sort.
Holland. Plutarch, fol. 48. Of Hearing.

some difference.

But in laws dispositive or introductive of a new obligation there is
Taylor, Rule of Conscience, book iii. ch. vi. fol. 737.
I place schools before colledges, because they are introductory
thereunto, intended for the breeding of children and youth, as the
other for youth and men.

England.

Fuller. Worthies, vol. i. ch. xi. p. 32.
They are the plainest and best dealers in the world; which seems
not to grow so much from a principle of conscience, or morality, as
from a custom or habit introduced by the necessity of trade among
them, which depends as much upon common honesty, as war does
upon discipline.

Sir Wm. Temple. Works, vol. i. p. 134. Observations upon the

United Provinces.

The fathers in that council severely checked the introducers of
Tritheism for mangling and dividing the holy unity into three strange
hypostases, perfectly separate from each other.
Bishop Bull, vol. ii. p. 189. Discourse 4.
We were accompanied both going and returning by ye introductor
of ambassadors and ayd of ceremonies.

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Evelyn. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 255. Paris, Sept. 15, 1651.
You know she lives in one of my Lord of Nottingham's houses at
St. James's, and, therefore, will neede no introductor there.

Id. lb. vol. ii. p. 268. To Mr. Watton, March 30, 1696.
This introductory discourse itself is to be but an essay, not a book.
Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 303. Experimental Essays in general.

Bently has yet more unhappily praised him as the introducer of
those elisions into English poetry, which had been used from the first
essays of versification among us, and which Milton was indeed the
last that practised.

Johnson. Works, vol. ii. p. 111. Proposals for Printing the Works
of Shakspeare.

It is a great beauty in an Introduction, when it can be made to turn

if

on some one thought, fully brought out and illustrated; especially,
that thought has a close connexion with the following discourse, and,
at the same time, does not anticipate any thing that is afterwards to
be introduced in a more proper place.

Blair. Lectures, vol. ii. p. 335.

If the intercourse of mankind in some instances be introductive of vice, the want of it as certainly excludes the exertion of the noblest

Mickle. Lusiad. Introduction.

virtues.
So that laws, when prudently framed, are by no means subversive,
but rather introductive of liberty; for, as Mr. Locke has well observed,
where there is no law there is no freedom.

Blackstone. Commentaries, book i. ch. i.
INTROIT, in Church Service. Durand has an ob-
scure and mystical Chapter, (iv. 5.) de officio sive In-
troitu Missæ, from which the only clear particulars to
be deduced are, that the Introit is so named, quod dum
ille canitur sacerdos ministraturus ad altare intrat seu
quod per illam antiphonam ad Officium intratur; and
that Pope Celestinus ordained that the Psalms should
be chanted as Introits; the Mass before his time having
immediately succeeded the Epistle and Gospel. Much
the same account will be found in the Treatise of Inno-
All Introits not
cent III. de Mysteriis Missæ, ii. 18.
taken from the Psalms are termed irregular.
The Introits, as set forth below in the first Common-
Prayer-Book of Edward VI., were well selected, as
bearing upon the particular Sunday or Holiday to which

they were applied; and we concur with Wheatley, (who INTROIT,
gives a false reference to Durand,) in surprise and re-
gret, that they were afterwards struck out, and that the
choice of some, most probably inappropriate, Psalm was
left to the caprice of any ignorant or self-complacent Pa-
rish Clerk. Mr. Hartwell Horne, with sound judgment,
has retained, in his Manual of Parochial Psalmody,
most of the Ancient Introits, as the Psalms to be sung
at the end of the Morning Prayer and before the Com-
munion; and a correct opinion on the value of the In-
troits has been well expressed by a still more recent and
very able writer, Mr. Carwithen, in his History of the
Church of England. The second service-book of
Edward suffered a material injury from the vitiation of
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begin the Communion Service was known in the Christian Church before the time of Jerome, and their propriety is as unquestionable as their antiquity is undisputed. Their absence is now sensibly felt, and is inadequately supplied by an unvaried Anthem, or an unmeaning overture in Cathedrals, and by the frequently improper selection of a Psalm in Parish Churches. According to the First Liturgy, while the whole Psalter was read through every month, in the morning and evening service, the most edifying parts were repeated on Sundays and the other solemn days observed by the Church." (i. 340.) The Sanctus, usually chanted as an Introit in our Cathedrals, is among the most solemn and impressive portions of their sublime service. In the Common Prayer above alluded to, set forth in 1549, the Gloria Patri closes each Psalm in accordance with a rubric, " and so must every Introite be ended." By a Canon of the IVth Council of Toledo the Gloria Patri was omitted after the Introits during Passion week.

"The Introites, Collectes, Epistles and Gospels to be used at the celebration of the Lorde's Supper and Holy with Psalmes and Communion, throughe the year, proper Lessons for divers feastes and dayes. 1st Sunday in Advent.

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Ascension Day

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Sunday after Ascension Day.

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Whitsunday.

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Monday in Whitsun week

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Tuesday.

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A looking within; an inward view.

7. The actings of the mind or imagination itself, by way of reflection or introspection of themselves, are discernible by man distinctly, but at least not distinctly by brutes.

Hale. Origination of Mankind, ch. ii. sec. 1.

So that I [Guido Reni] was forced to make an introspection into
mine own mind, and into that idea of beauty which I have formed in
my own imagination.

Dryden. Prose Works, vol. iii. p. 301. A Parallel of Poetry and
Painting.

INTROVENIENT, intro, and venient, from veniens,

127 present participle of ven-ire, to come.

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Coming in or within.

There being scarce any condition (but what depends upon clime)
which is not exhausted or obscured from the commixture of introve-
nient nations either by commerce or conquest.

Sir Thomas Brown. Vulgar Errours, book iv. ch. x.
INTROVERT. See INVERT, post. To turn inwards.
I often mitigate the pain arising from the little misfortunes and dis-
appointments that chequer human life by this introversion of my
faculties, wherein I regard my own soul as the image of her creator,
and receive great consolation from beholding those perfections which
testify her divine original, and lead me into some knowledge of her
144 everlasting archetype.
Guardian, No. 89.

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In Hakluyt and Holinshed, quasi in rem se mittere, force an entry or way in, unasked or uninvited; to to intermeddle. See Jamieson.

And if it shal fortune any such offender or offenders, their goods and chattels or any part thereof, to be in any citie, borough, towne incorporate, or other place franchised or priuiledged, where the said officer or officers may not lawfully intromit or intermeddle, that theu, &c.

Hakluyt. Voyages, &c. vol. i. fol. 271. Queen Marie's Patent. For by discoursing the properties of a good shepherd, and the lawful way of intromission, he proved them to be theeves and robhers, because they refused to enter in by Jesus, who is the door of the sheep.

Taylor. The Great Exemplar, part iii. sec. 22. p. 434. And be thir our letteris freelie, of our awin motiue will renuncis, & dimittis the gouernement, guiding and gouerning of this our realme of Scotland, liegis, and subiects thairof, and all intromission and dispositioun of onie casualiteis, properties.

Holinshed. Scotland, vol. v. p. 627. James VI. Anno 1567. All the reason that I could ever yet hear alledged by the chief factors for a general intromission of all sorts, sects, and persuasions into our communion, is, That those who separate from us are stiff and obstinate, and will not submit to the rules and orders of our church, and that therefore they ought to be taken away.

South. Sermons, vol. ii. p. 454. INTRORECEPTION, Lat. receptio, from recipere, to receive, or take.

encroach.

Straunge hath by way of intrucioun made his home there mee
should bee, if reason were heard as he should.

Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, book i. fol. 286.
Unprudent man, that whan the Rutil Kinge did through intrude;
Coulde him not entring spie, but in the fort did him include,
Euen lyke a tyger wylde among the flocks of cattailes rude.
Phaer. Eneidos, book ix. sig. C. c. iii.
He semeth vnworthy of honour, whoso by reason of iguoraunce am-
biciously desireth dignitie: and that man is not meete for a row me or
ministracion, whych intrudeth hymselfe into the same.

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INTRUDE. INTUITION.

And this unnatural intrusion here'

Of that attainted blood, out of all course,
Effected with confusion and with fear,

Must be reduc'd to other terms of force.

Daniel. History of Civil Wars, book vii.
Oh! whither wanders thy distemper'd brain
Thou bold intruder on a princely train?
Hence to the vagrant's rendezvous repair;
Or shun in some black forge the midnight air.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, book xviii. The pope would not desire any violation of the immunities of the realm, or to bring these into public contention, which had been hitherto enjoyed without intrusion or molestation.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, Anno 1532.
No spreading ports their sacred arms extend:
No mighty moles the big intrusive storm,
From the calm stations roll resounding back.

Thomson. Liberty, part i. v. 300.

Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene,
Where half the convex world intrudes between,
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.

Goldsmith. The Deserted Village.
Others have ceased their curiosity, and consider every man who
fills the mouth of report with a new name, as an intruder upon their
retreat, and disturber of their repose.
Johnson. The Rambler, No. 127.
Forgive, great sultan, that intrusive duty
Enquires the final doom of Menodorus,
The Grecian counsellor.

Id. Irene, act i. sc. 4. INTRUST, also written to entrust, q. v. In, and trust, q. v.

To place trust or confidence in; to commit or deliver in trust, i. e. to the truth or good faith; to confide.

True priests, he said, and preachers of the word,
Were only stewards of their sovereign lord;
Nothing was theirs; but all the publick store,
Intrusted riches to relieve the poor.

Dryden. Character of a Good Parson.

The joy of our Lord and master; which they only are admitted to, who are careful to improve the talents they are intrusted withall.

Wilkins. Natural Religion, book ii. ch. viii.

That the series of our 'astronomical observations might suffer no interruption by my absence, I intrusted the care of continuing them to Mr. Trevenen.

Cook. Voyages, vol. vii. book v. ch. ix. p. 384. INTSIA, in Botany, a genus of the class Decandria, order Monogynia, natural order Leguminosæ. Generic character calyx bell-shaped, five-parted; corolla of one petal, with a claw; three of the fertile filaments long, declining, pod oblong, compressed, three and four seeded, seeds oblong.

Two species, natives of Madagascar and Amboyna, Decandolle.

INTUITION, Fr. intuitif; It. and Sp. intuitivo, INTUITIVE, from Lat. intueri, intuitus, to look INTUITIVELY. into, (in, and tueri, to look.) A looking into, an inspection, an insight; insight, sc. immediate, instant;-without further thought or examination. See the Quotations from Locke and Stewart. To this Christ added, that the eyes must not be adulterous; his disciples must not onely abstain from the act of unlawful concubinate, but from the impurer intuition of a wife of another man.

Taylor. The Great Exemplar, part ii. sec. 36. p. 339. That is, that by some general designation of our actions, by the renewing of our intentions actually in certain periods of time, as in the morning of every day, or at evening, or both, or in every change of imployment, we have an actual intuition on God and God's glory.

Id. Rule of Conscience, book iv. ch. ii. fol. 812.

Whence the soule
Reason receives, and reason is her being,
Discursive, or intuitive.

Millon. Paradise Lost, book v. 1. 488.

For although with speech they intuitively conceive each other, INTUIyet do their apprehensions proceed through realities. TION.

Sir Thomas Brown. Vulgar Errours, book i. ch. xi. Some say, that the soul indeed is not passive under the materiall INTURGEphantasms; but doth only intuitively view them by the necessity of SCENCE. her nature, and so observes other things in these their representatives. Glanvil. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. iv. p. 29.

Or he their single virtues did survey,

By intuition in his own large breast,
Where all the rich ideas of them lay,

That were the rule and measure to the rest.

Dryden. On the Death of Cromwell. 'Tis on this intuition, that depends all the certainty and evidence of all our knowledge, which certainty every one finds to be so great, that he cannot imagine, and therefore cannot require a greater. For a man cannot conceive himself capable of a greater certainty, than to know that any idea in his mind is such, as he perceives it to be; and that two ideas, wherein he perceives a difference, are different, and not precisely the same.

Locke. On Human Understanding, book iv. ch. ii. sec. 1.

If we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find, that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge. For in this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the truth, as the eye doth light, only by being directed towards it. Id. Ib.

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In examining those processes of thought which conduct the mind by a series of consequences from premises to a conclusion, I can detect no intellectual act whatever, which the joint operation of intuition, and of memory, does not sufficiently explain. Stewart. Philosophy of the Human Mind, vol. ii. ch. i. sec. 1. p. 92.

The truth of mathematical axioms has always been supposed to be intuitively obvious; and the first of these, according to Euclid's enumeration, affirms, That if A be equal to B, and B to C, A and C are equal. İd. Ib. ch. ii. sec. 1. p. 96. INTUME'SCENCE, Fr. intumescence; Lat. inINTUME'SCENCY. Stumescens; present participle of intumescere, to swell; in, and tumes-cere, to swell. A swelling; an enlargement or increase.

But whether the received principle and undeniable action of the moon may not be still retained, although in some difference of application, is yet to be perpended; that is, not by a simple operation upon the surphace or superior parts, but excitation of the nitrosulphureous spirits, and parts disposed to intumescency at the bottom; not by attenuation of the upper part of the sea, (whereby ships would draw more water at the flow then at the ebb) but inturgescencies caused first at the bottom, and carrying the upper part before them.

Sir Thomas Brown. Vulgar Errours, book vii. ch. xiii. But a farther and sufficient manifestation, whence the intumescence of the bladder proceeds, may be deduced from the following experiment.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 19. Experiments touching the Spring of the Air.

Had navigation been at that time sufficiently advanced to make so long a passage easily practicable, there is little reason for doubting but the intumescence of nations would have found its vent, like all other expansive violence, where there was least resistance.

Johnson. Works, vol. viii. p. 148. Taxation no Tyranny. INTUMULATE, in, and tumulatus, from tumulare, to intomb; to bury.

To place or deposit within a tomb; in a grave; to inter or inhume, to bury.

Whose corps was with funeral pompe, according to the royall estate of a kyng, conueighed to the Colege of Winsore, to the which he had been a greate benefactor, and there on the right hand of the high aulter, princely enterred and intumulate.

Hall. Edward IV. The twenty-third Yere. ·

He also caused the corps of King Richard ye Second to be taken from the earth, whom King Henry the Fourth had intumulate in the friers Church of Langley. Stow. Henry V. Anno 1413. INTURGESCENCE. See Example in v. INTU

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