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Jer. Taylor.

2. (Gram.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

Intransitive verbs have no passive form. Some verbs which appear at first sight to be intransitive are in reality, or were originally, transitive verbs with a reflexive or other object omitted; as, he keeps (i. e., himself) aloof from danger. Intransitive verbs may take a noun of kindred signification for a cognate object; as, he died the death of a hero; he dreamed a dream. Some intransitive verbs, by the addition of a preposition, become transitive, and so admit of a passive voice; as, the man laughed at; he was laughed at by the man.

In*tran"si*tive*ly, adv. (Gram.) Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

||In` tran"si*tu (?). [L.] (Law) In transit; during passage; as, goods ||in transitu. || In`trans*mis"si*ble (?), a. Not capable of being transmitted.

In`trans*mu`ta*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being intransmutable.

In`trans*mut"a*ble (?), a. Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.

In"trant (?), a. [L. intrans, p. pr. of intrare to enter. See Enter.] Entering; penetrating.

In"trant, n. One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station. Hume.

In`tra*nu"cle*ar (?), a. (Biol.) Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis.

In*trap" (?), v. t. See Entrap. Spenser.

In"tra*pa*ri"e*tal (?), a. Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired.

I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging.

Rolleston.

In`tra*pet"i*o*lar (?), a. (Bot.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.

In`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al (?), a. Within the territory or a territory.

In`tra*tho*rac"ic (?), a. Within the thora&?; or chest.

In`tra*trop"ic*al (?), a. Within the tropics.

In`tra*u"ter*ine (?), a. Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage.

In`tra*valv"u*lar (?), a. Between valves.

In`tra*ve"nous (?), a. Within the veins.

In`tra*ven*tric"u*lar (?), a. Within or between ventricles.

In*treas"ure (?; 135), v. t. To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [Obs.] Shak.

In*treat" (?), v. t. See Entreat. Spenser.

In*treat"a*ble (?), a. [Pref. in- not + treatable.] Not to be entreated; inexorable.

In*treat"ance (?), n. Entreaty. [Obs.] Holland.

In*treat"ful (?), a. Full of entreaty. [Obs.] Spenser.

In*trench" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intrenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Intrenching.]