Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-SUB-OR-DI-NA'TION, n.

Want of subordination; disorder; disobedience to lawful authority. Marshall. J. M. Mason.

IN-SUB-STAN'TIAL, a.

Unsubstantial; not real. Shak.

IN-SUC-CA'TION, n. [L. insucco, to moisten; in and succus, juice.]

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. Coxe.

IN-SUF'FER-A-BLE, a. [in and sufferable.]

1. Intolerable; that can not be borne or endured; as, insufferable heat, cold or pain.
2. That can not be permitted or tolerated. Our wrongs are insufferable.
3. Detestable; contemptible; disgusting beyond endurance. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden.

IN-SUF'FERA-BLY, adv.

To a degree beyond endurance; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

IN-SUF-FI'CIEN-CY, n. [in and sufficiency.]

1. Inadequateness; want of sufficiency; deficiency; as, an insufficiency of provisions to supply the garrison.
2. Inadequacy of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
3. Want of the requisite strength, value or force; defect. The insufficiency of the light of nature is supplied by the light of Scripture. Hooker.

IN-SUF-FI'CIENT, a. [in and sufficient.]

1. Not sufficient; inadequate to any need, use or purpose. The provision are insufficient in quantity and defective in quality.
2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, or skill; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

IN-SUF-FI'CIENT-LY, adv.

With want of sufficiency; with want of proper ability or skill; inadequately.

IN-SUF-FLA'TION, n. [L. in and sufflo, to blow.]

1. The act of breathing on.
2. The act of blowing a substance into a cavity of the body. Coxe.

IN-SUIT'A-BLE, a.

Unsuitable. [Little used.] Burnet.

IN'SU-LAR, a. [L. insularis, from insula, an isle.]

Belonging to an isle; surrounded by water; as, an insular situation.

IN'SU-LAR, or IN'SU-LA-RY, n.

One who dwells in an isle. Berkeley.

IN-SU-LAR'ITY, n.

The state of being insular.

IN'SU-LAR-LY, adv.

In an insular manner.

IN'SU-LATE, v.t. [L. insula, an isle.]

1. To place in a detached situation, or in a state to have no communication with surrounding objects.
2. In architecture, to set a column alone or not contiguous to a wall.
3. In electrical experiments, to place on a non-conducting substance, or in a situation to prevent communication with the earth.
4. To make an isle. [Little used.]

IN'SU-LA-TED, pp. [or a.]

1. Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; as, an insulated house or column.
2. In electrical experiments, placed on an electric or non-conducting substance; not communicating with the earth.

IN'SU-LA-TING, ppr.

Setting in a detached position. In electrical experiments, preventing communication by the interposition of an electric body.

IN-SU-LA'TION, n.

1. The act of insulating; the state of being detached from other objects.
2. In electrical experiments, that state in which the communication of electrical fluid is prevented by the interposition of an electric body.

IN'SU-LA-TOR, n.

In electrical experiments, the substance or body that insulates, or interrupts the communication of electricity to surrounding objects; a non-conductor or electric. Ed. Encyc.

IN'SU-LOUS, a.

Abounding in isles.

IN-SULSE', a. [insuls'; L. insulsus.]

Dull; insipid. [Not used.] Milton.

IN'SULT, n. [Fr. insulte; L. insultus, from insilio, to leap on; in and salio, to leap.]

1. The act of leaping on. [Little used.] Dryden.
2. Any gross abuse offered to another, either by words or actions; act or speech of insolence or contempt. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

IN-SULT', v.i.

To behave with insolent triumph. B. Jonson.

IN-SULT', v.t. [Fr. insulter; It. insultare; Sp. insultar; L. insulto. See the noun.]

To treat with gross abuse, insolence or contempt, by words or actions; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him. To insult over, to triumph over with insolence and contempt.

IN-SULT-A'TION, n.

The act of insulting; abusive treatment. Feltham.