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English
Etymology
From Latin īnsulsus; prefix in- not + salsus (“salted”), from salīre (“to salt”).
Adjective
insulse (comparative more insulse, superlative most insulse)
- (obsolete) insipid, dull, stupid or tasteless
1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , volume I, Amsterdam ,
1698,
→OCLC,
page 172:
will ever appeare among the judicious to be but an inſuls and frigid affectation.
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Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
insulse
- feminine plural of insulso
Latin
Adjective
īnsulse
- vocative masculine singular of īnsulsus
References
- “insulse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insulse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insulse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.