insulse

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English

Etymology

Latin insulsus; prefix in- not + salsus salted, from salire, salsum, to salt.

Adjective

insulse (comparative more insulse, superlative most insulse)

  1. (obsolete) insipid; dull; stupid
    • 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 [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 172:
      […] will ever appeare among the judicious to be but an inſuls and frigid affectation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “insulse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

insulse

  1. feminine plural of insulso

Latin

Adjective

īnsulse

  1. 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.
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