† inˈtrusor Obs.
Forms: 4 intrewsar, 5 intrusour, 5–6 -ore, 6 Sc. -ar.
[a. AF. en-, intrusour, in med.(Anglo-)L. intrūsor one who usurps a possession, office, or dignity, agent-n. from intrūdĕre to intrude.]
= intruder 1.
| [1292 Britton iii. i. §2 Qe ceux entrusours pusent estre engettez freschement apres la intrusioun. Ibid. §4 Bon est qe teus brefs i soint ordinez, qe plus chacent les intrusours a respouns.] c 1400 Apol. Loll. 77 Or ellis þat clerkis now are..fals intrewsars. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas viii. i. (1554) 177 b, An intrusour, one called Julian, Thestate usurping to reigne there began. 1594 Sc. Acts. Jas. VI (1816) IV. 69/1 The personis intrusaris of thame selffis in sic possessioun, delayis the mater. 1599 W. Watson in Archpr. Controv. (Camden) I. 91 Parsons and Blackwell, intrusores into our haruest. |