Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-SUB-OR-DI-NA'TION – IN-SULT-A'TION
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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.]
- Intolerable; that can not be borne or endured; as, insufferable heat, cold or pain.
- That can not be permitted or tolerated. Our wrongs are insufferable.
- 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.]
- Inadequateness; want of sufficiency; deficiency; as, an insufficiency of provisions to supply the garrison.
- Inadequacy of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
- 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.]
- Not sufficient; inadequate to any need, use or purpose. The provision are insufficient in quantity and defective in quality.
- 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.]
- The act of breathing on.
- 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.
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.]
- To place in a detached situation, or in a state to have no communication with surrounding objects.
- In architecture, to set a column alone or not contiguous to a wall.
- In electrical experiments, to place on a non-conducting substance, or in a situation to prevent communication with the earth.
- To make an isle. [Little used.]
IN'SU-LA-TED, pp. [or a.]
- Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; as, an insulated house or column.
- 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.
- The act of insulating; the state of being detached from other objects.
- 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.]
- The act of leaping on. [Little used.] Dryden.
- 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.