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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of intromit.

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  • One key driver of such an appeal to the interaction of light behavior and our visual apparatuses is Gassendi's view that some explanatory role must be played here by the common atomic structure underlying the images intromitted into our eyes and the light rays cast by celestial bodies which are understood as creating such images.

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • He could hear the sound whenever her brush intromitted its harsh _whoosh-whoosh_ and she paused to apply fresh soap.

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • But if any one object that such a conversion, even if it were perfected, was poor, inasmuch as the man's free will was intromitted with, I answer: 'The development of the free will was the one object.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • Page 313 intromitted into the sphere of goodness, and saw and felt it in the uses this good woman was performing, which made her face shine like an angel's.

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

  • Another Night-larum; but onlie from Father, who wanted me to write for him, -- a Task he has much intromitted of late.

    Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

  • From what has been said we may safely deduce this consequence; to wit, that a man born blind and made to see would, at first opening of his eyes, make a very different judgment of the magnitude of objects intromitted by them from what others do.

    A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

  • It is nevertheless certain, the ideas intromitted by each sense are widely different and distinct from each other; but having been observed constantly to go together, they are spoken of as one and the same thing.

    A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

  • The objects intromitted by sight would seem to him (as in truth they are) no other than a new set of thoughts or sensations, each whereof is as near to him as the perceptions of pain or pleasure, or the most inward passions of his soul.

    A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

  • And without this motion of the eye, this turning it up and down in order to discern different objects, doubtless ERECT, INVERSE, and other the like terms relating to the position of tangible objects, would never have been transferred, or in any degree apprehended to belong to the ideas of sight: the mere act of seeing including nothing in it to that purpose; whereas the different situations of the eye naturally direct the mind to make a suitable judgment of the situation of objects intromitted by it.

    A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

  • And as for figure and extension, I leave it to anyone that shall calmly attend to his own clear and distinct ideas to decide whether he had any idea intromitted immediately and properly by sight save only light and colours: or whether it De possible for him to frame in his mind a distinct abstract idea of visible extension or figure exclusive of all colour: and on the other hand, whether he can conceive colour without visible extension?

    A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

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