in general, signifies any thing which tends to make another in some measure known before we have leisure to examine it thoroughly; and hence it is used on a great variety of occasions. Thus we speak of the introduction of one person to another; the introduction to a book, &c.—It is also used to signify the actual motion of any body out of one place into another, when that motion has been occasioned by some other body.

INTRODUCTION, in Oratory. See ORATORY, No. 26.