insisture
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English
Etymology
Noun
insisture (uncountable)
- (obsolete, very rare) Fixedness; persistence; insistence.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- The heaven themselves, the planets and this centre
Observe degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office, and custom, in all line of order
- 1953, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (Horace Howard Furness), page 402:
- Valla explains insisture and course for the planets thus: "Cursus.) Quia modo celerius ire uidentur ob eccentri terrae proquinquitatem : modo tardius ob distantiam à terra : modo dirigi , cum sublimia petunt : modo repedare cum ambiunt epicyclum ..."
- 1903, The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress, page 774:
- efforts by which, as in all past time the serious workers have sought by their very insisture and strength to open new paths and roads afresh,
References
- “insisture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “insisture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “insisture”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.: "A word of obscure use in Shakspere: taken variously in the sense of 'persistency, constancy' (Schmidt), 'regularity, or perhaps station' (Nares); perh. = 'steady continuance' in their path."
