Intrusion

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intrusion \In*tru"sion\, n. [Cf. F. intrusion. See {Intrude}.]
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     1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the
        forcing (one's self) into a place without right or
        welcome; encroachment.
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              Why this intrusion?
              Were not my orders that I should be private?
                                                    --Addison.
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     2. (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or
        metal state, into the cavities of another.
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     3. (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate
        or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in
        remainder or reversion has taken possession.
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     4. (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over a
        congregation without their consent.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intrusion
       n 1: any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion
            of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: {invasion},
             {encroachment}]
       2: entrance by force or without permission or welcome
       3: the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata
          of an earlier rock formation
       4: rock produced by an intrusive process
       5: entry to another's property without right or permission
          [syn: {trespass}, {encroachment}, {violation}, {usurpation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "intrusion":
     access, admission, alienage, alienism, encroachment, entrance,
     entree, entry, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality,
     foreignness, import, importation, importing, impropriety,
     inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, income, incoming,
     inconvenience, incursion, inexpedience, infelicity, infiltration,
     infraction, infringement, ingoing, ingress, ingression,
     inopportuneness, inopportunity, input, inroad, insertion,
     insinuation, intake, intempestivity, intercurrence, interjacence,
     interlocation, intermediacy, interpenetration, interposition,
     interposure, interruption, intervenience, intervention,
     introduction, introgression, irrelevance, lateness, leakage,
     nonassimilation, nonconformity, overstepping, penetration,
     percolation, prematurity, reception, sandwiching, seepage,
     transgression, trespass, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness,
     unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness,
     unsuitability, untimeliness, usurpation, wrongness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INTRUSION, remedies. The name of a writ, brought by the owner of a fee 
  simple, &c., against an intruder. New Nat. Br. 453. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INTRUSION, estates, torts. When an ancestor dies seised of an estate of 
  inheritance expectant upon an estate for life, and then the tenant dies, and 
  between his death and the entry of the heir, a stranger unlawfully enters 
  upon the estate, this is called an intrusion. It differs from an abatement, 
  for the latter is an entry into lands void by the death of a tenant in fee, 
  and an intrusion, as already stated, is an entry into land void by the death 
  of a tenant for years. F. N. B. 203 3 Bl. Com. 169 Archb. Civ. Pl. 12; 
  Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.