INTRODUCE Copy link • INTRODUCEBring into use, fashion, inducere (e.g., new customs, words, etc.): introducere (a custom): instituere (to appoint; a festival, the census, etc.). To introduce a religious worship (from a foreign state), religionem advehere; foreign usages, peregrinos ritus asciscere. To introduce many changes or new regulations in military discipline, in re militari multa instituere (Suet.): he introduced many new inventions, and made many improvements on what brfore existed, multa partim nova attulit, partim meliora fecit (Nep.). To introduce a character in a dialogue, aliquem loquentem, or disputantem inducere, or facere; personam (a fictitious personage) introducere; alicui sermonem tribuere or orationem attribuere: (several) inducere sermonem hominum; fictam orationem personis induere (when the speeches are invented, Quint.). To make anybody known to another, introducere aliquem apud aliquem (by taking him to his house, etc): commendare alicui aliquem (by a recommendation): *praesentem praesenti alicui commendare (of a personal introduction). Sometimes ostentare aliquem (to show him; e.g., to introduce a young prince to the armies, per omnes exercitus): to be introduced into the Senate by anybody, per aliquem in senatu introduci.