introducere

introducere [CL] 1 to bring, lead (person) in, to let in, admit; b (w. ref. to presentation of offender in court). summa ‥ cura fuerat camerario ut ‥ per singulas noctes pauperes ~eret Turgot Marg. 10; ad ipsum accedens eumque ~ens Gir. GE II 11 p. 218; Alb. Lond. DG 4. 3 (v. introduca); 1426 quod omnes pedestres et per vias equitantes in articulo necessitatis ~erent ad eosdem reficiendos de victualibus et potu Cl 276 m. 5.  b 1359 allocantur computanti, pro uno amerciamento unius serjandi transeuntis de licencia justiciariorum ad ~endum unum latronem in eodem itinere, xl s. ExchScot 587. 2 (w. indication of direction): a to bring, lead into (closed or defined space), to bring in at (entrance) (w. var. constrs.); b (w. in or ad & acc.); c (w. acc. denoting place). d to bring to (place). a donec [species corporis gloriosi] caelis patentibus ~ta amplius ‥ videri non potuit Bede HE IV 9 p. 222; clero et populo comitantibus speluncam adiit atque ubi vij dormientes quiescebant cum aromatibus legatos introduxit Osb. Clar. V. Ed. Conf. 18 p. 101; secretarium ingressus est, illucque ~i lictores ‥ mandat W. Malm. GP I 6 p. 14.  b qui ‥ in domus suas hujusmodi homines ~unt ‥ quinquennio paeniteant Theod. Pen. I 15. 4; perducta ‥ ad monasterium ‥, ~ta est ad cymiterium Bede HE IV 10 p. 225; qui non vult ecclesiae januam sponte humiliatus ingredi, necesse habet in januam inferni non sponte damnatus ~i Ib. V 14 p. 314; Anselm (Ep. 418) V 364 (v. claustralis 2b).  c c794 virgo ‥ magni imperatoris thalamum ‥ ~atur Alcuin Ep. 36; anima omnium vitiorum a contagione mundata paradisum ~itur Ord. Vit. VIII 17 p. 370; s1213 quem ‥ archiepiscopus elevans ‥ fores ecclesie ‥ introduxit Meaux I 392.  d Christus ~et ‥ Adam ad arborem misericordie Eul. Hist. I 118 (cf. Descensus Christi rec. A 3: Adam in paradisum ad arborem). 3 (w. thing as obj.): a to bring in, take in, introduce (thing); b (w. ref. to introduction of one branch of study by another regarded as prior); c (form, sc. in matter). d to bring in, lead in (crops, harvest). a ~to aere, ignis evanuit W. Malm. GR II 206; Neckam Ut. 101 (v. inducere 2g).  b ista ‥ sciencia, sc. de numero tam per se quam relato ad sonum, sic est secundum Alardum ~a Odington 47.  c quando in materia ~itur forma, jam ipsa materia disposita, tunc est mutatio Bacon VIII 33; differt potentia nature a potentia materie artificialis, quia hec nullo modo disponit ut incidens forma ~atur Ib. 39.  d c1230 postquam blada plene ~ta fuerint (Cust. Chisenbury) Doc. Bec 54; 1285 metet iiij acras et dim. bladi, ligabit et coppabit et ~et (Terring) Cust. Suss II 25; 1397 tenentes de gaveland’ qui ‥ metent et ~ent iiijxx iij acras IMisc 267/20. 4 to introduce (person): a (into state, condition); b (to subject, study). a c1130 ut claviger paradysi ~at vos ad misericordiam Christi Ch. Westm. 244; Thomas ‥ in ipsius [Theobaldi] notitiam ~tus W. Fitzst. Thom. 4.  b quartum [tractatum] ‥ quem simili modo edidi, non inutilem ut puto ~endis ad dialecticam Anselm (Ver. praef.) I 173. 5 a to appoint (person). b (w. in & acc., or w. dat.) to appoint (to office). a c1060 (v. extraneus 2c); imperator ‥ Hildebrandum [sc. papam] expulit, Guibertum Ravennatem introduxit W. Malm. GR III 262; illi ‥ in monasterium irruerunt et Poncium ‥ suosque violenter introduxerunt Ord. Vit. XII 30 p. 425.  b vir celebratissime sanctitatis ‥ et in presulatum ~tus W. Malm. GP I 49 p. 90; legitime sedi ~tus et honorifice consecratus est Ib. IV 167. 6 to introduce (person or theme in discourse, text), to represent (in text). anniversaria temporum vicissitudo, quam psalmista ‘coronam anni benignitatis’ [cf. Psalm. lxiv 12] ~it divinae benedictionis ubertate locupletatam Aldh. Met. 3; Bede AM 139 (v. interlocutio 1); cum nominantur tres virtutes, fides spes caritas, melius est dicere neutraliter ‘major horum’ quam ‘major his est caritas’ [cf. I Cor. xiii 13], ut non quartum aliquid ~as [cf. Ps.-Aug. Ars gram. II 5]: inducere Abbo QG 19 (41); ut ‥ tandem hominem ipsum, tanquam digniorem operis partem, ‥ ~amus Gir. TH III Intr.; Pallas sine matre ~itur Alb. Lond. DG 10. 2; Aman introducimus atque Mardocheum Carm. Lew. 137; varia ~am Bacon CSTheol. prol. p. 26. 7 a to bring in, establish (practice, custom; also w. in & acc.). b to propose (idea). c to bring (charge). d to introduce (bill, into parliament). a ne quid ille contrarium veritati fidei ‥ in ecclesiam ‥ ~eret Bede HE IV 1 p. 203; c1230 tempore Ricardi abbatis ~ta est quarta precaria Cust. Waltham f. 210v; nulla consuetudine a quocunque prius ~ta resistente Laws Romney Marsh 47.  b introduxerat octo opiniones erroneas ‥ easque minus sane ‥ ~tas sustinere non erubuit Wykes 307.  c 1342 si ‥ plura gravamina ‥ ~at (v. devolutio 2c).  d 1453 introduxit in domum dictam [sc. inferiorem parliamenti] billam quamdam Reg. Whet. I 92. 8 (math. & astr., of quantity) to be the value at which a table is entered (in quots., pres. ppl. as adj. or sb. n.; cf. intrare 9). si ‥ fuerit ‥ argumentum ~ens nonaginta gradibus minus, erit ipsum ~ens a nonaginta minuendum Adel. Elk. 23; erit ‥ ille arcus significans minorationem Arietis quantum ad circulum equinoctialem pro gradu quidem ~ente Ib. 26a.