subintroduce

English

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Etymology

From Latin subintrōdūcō (“introduce in secret”). By surface analysis, sub- +‎ introduce.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sŭb'ĭntrŏdyo͞osʹ, IPA(key): /ˌsʌbɪntɹəʊˈdjuːs/

Verb

subintroduce (third-person singular simple present subintroduces, present participle subintroducing, simple past and past participle subintroduced or (obsolete) subintroduc’d)

  1. (chiefly as a participial adjective, transitive) To introduce in a secret or subtle manner.
    • a. 1641, Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), page 11:
      The onely true God,…no supposed,…subintroducted God or Gods.
    • 1664, Jer. Taylor, Dissuas. Popery, chapter i, § 6 (1688), page 44:
      To say that the first practise and institution is necessary to be followed, is called Heretical: to refuse the later subintroduc’d custom incurrs the sentence of Excommunication.
    • 1687, John Sergeant, The Second Catholick Letter; or, Reflections on the Reflecters Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet’s Firſt Letter to Mr. G. againſt the Anſwer to the Arguing Part of it, in Five Catholick Letters concerning the Means of knowing with Abſolute Certainty, what Faith, now held, was taught by Chriſt, London: printed and sold by Matthew Turner at the Lamb in High-Holborn, published 1688, page 61:
      What if others, to ſave themſelves from Perſecution, conceal’d part, and corrupted more of the Doctrin of Chriſt by their own Traditions, taken not from Chriſt, but from their Forefathers, Jews or Gentiles? Then thoſe who were out of Perſecution, or valu’d it not ſo much as they did their Conſcience, would oppoſe their Unchriſtian Proceedings: Then the Fathers, Doctors, and Paſtours of the Church would reveal what they had conceal’d, reſtore what they had corrupted, and manifeſt that their Pretences and Subterfuges were Falſe, and that the Doctrin they ſubintroduc’d, had not deſcended by the open Channel of the Chriſtian Church’s Tradition.
    • 1697, anonymous author, “Paulus Samoſatenus his Uncleanneſs.”, in God’s Judgments againſt Whoꝛing. Being an Eſſay towards a General Hiſtory of it, from the Creation of the World, to the Reign of Auguſtulus, (which, according to common Computation, is 5190 Years) and from thence down to the present Year 1697. Being a Collection of the moſt Remarkable Inſtances of Uncleanneſs, that are to be found in Sacred or Prophane Hiſtory during that time. With Obſervations thereon., volume I, London: printed for Richard Baldwin at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, page 303:
      Book 7, Cap. 30, he gives us an Account, that Paulus Samoſatenus, who ſpoke againſt the Godhead of Jeſus Chriſt, and became a Founder of that Hereſie, was a ſenſual Man, countenanc’d thoſe called Subintroduc’d Women, who were neither Wives nor Concubines, but a third ſort, whom they kept, as they pretended, not to gratifie their Luſts, but out of a pious deſign: And they take particular notice, that this Paul glutted himſelf with all Senſual Delights, as Feaſting, Drinking, and the like, which are the common Incentives of Luſt, and that he carried two beautiful Women conſtantly along with him.
    • 1844, Gladstone, Glean. (1879), volume III, page 16:
      The mode, in which the expression of it is subintroduced, seems to denote a repression of his own full meaning.
    • 1886, Conder, Syrian Stone-Lore, chapter viii (1896), page 278:
      The practice of allowing ‘subintroduced sisters’ to live in the houses of the celibates.
      Conder in this excerpt makes reference to the mulieres subintroductæ (Gr. συνείσακτοι), called also extraneæ, whom clerics were forbidden by the canons of various councils to have in their houses.

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Latin

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Verb

subintrōdūce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of subintrōdūcō
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