Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: inscribe – insight
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inscribe (-s), v. [L. inscrībere, write in or on.] (webplay: touch).
- Imprint; [fig] indicate.
- Write; engrave for duration; carve a line of verse on a monument; [fig.] memorialize; ensure perpetuity of an individual after death.
inscrutable, adj. [Fr. < L. inscrūtābilis, search thoroughly.]
Mysterious; cryptic; paradoxical; unrecognizable; not obvious to human reason.
inscrutably, adv. [see inscrutable, adj.]
Mysteriously; unrecognizably; without comprehension; [fig.] divinely.
insect (-'s), n. [Fr. < L. insectum < insecāre, cut into < Gk. ἔντομον, name given to certain.]
- Small invertebrate animal; winged creature, breathing by lateral spiracles; being that has articulated extremities and moveable antennae.
- Section; segment; small part; being whose body is separated from its spirit; small animal whose body appears divided into parts.
insecure, adj. [L. insecūrus, see secure, adj.] (webplay: fire, truth).
Unsafe; unprotected; exposed to danger; subject to loss.
insecurity, n. [see security, n.]
Uncertainty; state of being unsafe; [fig.] fragility.
insert (-ing), v. [Fr. < L. inserere, put in.]
Set in.
inside, prep. [in + side; see side, n.]
Interior to; internal to.
insidious, adj. [Fr. < L. insidiōsus.]
Cunning; deceitful; ensnaring; deceitful; sly; [fig.] malicious.
insight, n. [in + sight; see sight, n.]
Introspection; inner point of view; deep inspection of a matter.