insecurity 
stability of something; apprehensiveness of 
change, loss, or damage ; doubt ; uncertainty : 
as, a feeling of insecurity pervaded the com- 
munity. 
With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . 
unto arbitrary calculations. Sir T. Browne. 
insecutiont (in-se-ku'shon), n. [< LL. insecu- 
tio(n-), a pursuing, < L. "inscqui, pp. inseeuttis, 
pursue: see inscctation.] A following after 
something; close pursuit. 
JEacides, that wishly did intend 
(Standing asterne his tall neckt ship) how deepe the skir- 
mish drew 
Amongst the Greeks, and with what ruth the insecution 
grew. Chapman, Iliad, xi. 
inseminate (in-sem'i-nat), p. t. ; pret. and pp. 
inseminated, ppr. inseminating. K L. insemi- 
natus, pp. of inseminare, sow or plant in, < in, 
in, + seminare, sow, plant, < semen, seed: see 
semen. Cf. disseminate.'] To sow; inject seed 
into; impregnate. Cockeram. [Bare.] 
insemination (in-sem-i-na'shon), n. [= F. in- 
semination, < L. as if *inseminatio(n-), < insemi- 
nare, sow or plant in: see inseminate."] The 
act of sowing or of injecting seed ; impregna- 
tion. Coles, 1717. [Rare.] 
insensate (in-sen'sat), a. [< LL. insensatim, < 
in- priv. + sensatus, endowed with sense, < L. 
sensus, sensation, sense: see sense.] 1. Not 
endowed with sense ; destitute of the power of 
feeling ; naturally senseless ; inanimate. 
The silence and the calm 
Of mute insensate things. Wordsworth. 
2. Wanting or deprived of sense ; destitute of 
natural sense or feeling ; stupid. 
As their own ruin on themselves to invite, 
Insensate left, or to sense reprobate. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1685. 
We wonder that a man could possibly be so sottish ; and 
yet we ourselves by temptation become no less insensate. 
Bp. Hall, Contemplations (ed. 1836X ii. 47. 
3. Marked by want of sense or feeling ; mani- 
festing insensibility ; irrational ; maniacal. 
Wisely they 
Despise the inxensate barbarous trade of war. 
Thomson, Winter, 1. 844. 
The vast, black, raging spaces, torn and wild, 
With an insensate fury answer back 
To the gale's challenge. 
C. Thaxter, At the Breaker's Edge. 
insensateness (in-sen'sat-nes), n. The state of 
being- insensate or senseless ; want of sense or 
feeling; stupidity. 
insense 1 !, v. t. An obsolete spelling of incense^. 
insense 2 (in-sens'), v. t.; pret. and pp. insensed, 
ppr. insensing. [Appar. < in-2 + sense; but 
most instances cited are certainly to be re- 
ferred to incense 1 (formerly often spelled in- 
sense), in a similar meaning. Prob. the more 
mod. instances (dial.) are understood as < in- 2 
+ sense."] To instruct ; inform ; make to under- 
stand. Grose. 
insenselesst (iu-sens'les), a. [< in-3 (here cumu- 
lative) + senseless."] Senseless; without feel- 
ing; insensible. [Rare.] 
In other men 'tis but a huff 
To vapour with, instead of proof, 
That, like a wen, looks big and swells, 
Ineenseless, and just nothing else. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. ii. 394. 
insensibility (in-sen-si-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. in- 
sensibilite = Sp. insensibilidad = Pg. insensibili- 
dade = It. insensibilita ; as insensible + -ity."\ 
1. Lack of physical sensibility ; the state of be- 
ing insensible to physical impressions ; absence 
of feeling or sensation. 
There holdeth me sometyme by Almighty God as it were 
euen a swone, and an insensibilitie for woonder. 
Sir T. More, Works, p. 12. 
Insensibility to suffering was no longer professed; in- 
domitable strength was no longer idolised ; and it was felt 
that weakness and sorrow have their own appropriate vir- 
tues. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 256. 
2. Lack of moral sensibility, or the power to 
be moved or affected; lack of tenderness or 
susceptibility of emotion. 
Peace (if insensibility may claim 
A right to the meek honours of her name). 
Cowper, Hope, 1. 235. 
One great cause of onr insensibility to the goodness of 
our Creator is the very extensiveness of his bounty. 
Paley. 
Man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards 
a new gown. Jane Austen, Nortnanger Abbey, p. 54. 
= Syn. Indifference, Insensibility, Impassibility, etc. See 
apathy. 
insensible (in-sen'si-bl), n. and n. [= F. insen- 
sible = Sp. insensible = Pg. insensivel = It. in- 
sensibile, < LL. insensibilis, that cannot be felt, 
that cannot feel, < L. in- priv. 4- sensibilis, seusi- 
3116 
ble: see sensible.] I. a. 1. Not perceptible by 
the senses ; imperceptible ; inappreciable. 
The delicate graduation of curves that melt into each 
other by insensible transitions. J. Caird. 
Already in the distance the white waves, the " skipper's 
daughters," had begun to flee before a breeze that was still 
insensible on Arcs. It. L. Stevenson, Merry Men. 
In inland seas, such as the Mediterranean, the tides are 
nearly insensible except at the ends of long bays. 
Eneyc. Brit., XXIIL 354. 
2. Not sensible to the mind; not consciously 
apprehended or appreciated ; unconscious. 
How many persons do you meet, the insensible influence 
of whose manners and character is so decided as often to 
thwart then- voluntary influence ! 
Bushnelt, Sermons for New Life, p. 191. 
There are insensible transitions between the humble 
salaams of the Hindoo, the profound bow which in Eu- 
rope shows great respect, and the moderate bend of the 
head expressive of consideration. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Soclol., 385. 
3. Without the power of feeling or sensation; 
without corporeal sensibility. 
How gladly would I meet 
Mortality my sentence, and be earth 
Insensible! M ilttm, P. L., x. 777. 
Anything which renders a human being totally insen- 
sible, sometimes for hours, to the sharpest pain, must be 
attended with considerable danger to life. 
K T. Tibbits, Med. Fashions, p. 21. 
4. Not susceptible of emotion or passion ; void 
of feeling or tenderness : as, to be insensible to 
the sufferings of others. 
Art thou grown 
Insensible in ill, that thou goest on 
Without the least compunction ? 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, iv. 2. 
Nothing disturbs the tranquillity of their souls, equally 
insensible to disasters and to prosperity. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 68. 
Laura was . . . not insensible to the renown which his 
sonnets brought her. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 9. 
5f. Void of sense or meaning; meaningless. 
If it make the indictment insensible or uncertain, it shall 
be quashed. Sir M. Hale, Hist. Pleas of the Crown, ii. 24. 
Insensible caloric, an obsolete term for latent heat. See 
heat. = Svn. 1. Imperceivable. 4. Dull, torpid, senseless, 
unconscious, unfeeling, unsusceptible, indifferent, bard, 
callous. 
II. t " One who is lacking in sensibility; a 
thoroughly apathetic person. 
His reason and the force of his resolutions enabled him 
on all occasions to contain himself, and to curb the very 
first risings of passion and that in such a degree that he 
was taken almost for an insensilile. 
Roger North, Lord Guilford, II. 53. 
What an insensible must have been my cousin, had she 
not been proud of being Lady Grandison. 
Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison, VI. 406. 
insensibleness (in-sen'si-bl-nes), n. Insensi- 
bility. 
And Paneetius, one of the wisest of the Stoicks, is so far 
from making insensibleness of pain the property of a wise 
man that he makes it not the property of a man. 
StiUingfieet, Sermons, I. vi. 
insensiblist (in-sen'si-blist), n. [< insensible 
+ -ist.] One who is insensible to emotion or 
passion ; one who is apathetic or who affects 
apathy. [Rare.] 
Mr. Meadows, . . . since he commenced insensiblist, 
has never once dared to be pleased. 
Miss Burney, Cecilia, iv. 2. 
insensibly (in-sen'si-bli), adv. In an insensi- 
ble manner; so as not to be felt or perceived; 
imperceptibly. 
His behaviour in an assembly [is] peculiarly graceful 
in a certain art of mixing insensibly with the rest, and be- 
coming one of the company, instead of receiving the court- 
ship of it. Steele, Spectator, No. 340. 
The war of Granada had insensibly trained up a hardy 
militia. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 3. 
insensitive (in-sen'si-tiv), a. [= Pg. It. insensi- 
tivo; as in- 3 + sensitive.'] Not sensitive; hav- 
ing little or no sensibility. 
In certain cases the hypnotic is insensitive. 
Science, XIII. 50. 
People have lived and died without the use of eyes, but 
nobody has ever grown up with an insensitive skin. 
6. C. Robertson, Mind, XIII. 423. 
insensitiveness (in-sen'si-tiv-nes), . The 
quality of being insensitive. 
The relation between depth of sleep and frequency of 
dreams seems explicable on the supposition that the in- 
sensitiveness to outside excitations present in deep sleep 
also induces insensitivenesa to internal impressions. 
Science, XIII. 88. 
insensuous (in-sen'gu-us), a. [< in- 3 + sensu- 
ous."] Not sensuous; not addressing itself to 
or affecting the senses. 
That intermediate door 
Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form 
And form insenmous. Mrs. Brourninij. 
insert 
insentient (in-sen'shient), a. [< in- 3 + sen- 
tient.'] Not sentient; "not having perception, 
or the power of feeling. 
The mind is the sentient being ; and as the rose is in- 
sentient, there can be no sensation, nor any thing resem- 
bling sensation, in it. Reid, Intellectual Powers, ii. 18. 
inseparability (in-sep"a-ra-biri-ti), re. [= F. 
inseparabilite = Sp. inseparabilidad = Pg. in- 
separabilidade, < lAi.inseparabilita(t-)s, insepa- 
rableness,< L. inseparabilis, inseparable : see in- 
separable."] The condition or quality of being 
inseparable or incapable of disjunction. 
The parts of pure space are immovable, which follows 
from their inseparability, motion being nothing but change 
of distance between any two things. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xiii. 14. 
inseparable (in-sep'a-ra-bl), a. [= F. insepara- 
ble = Sp. inseparable = Pg. inseparavel = It. 
inseparable, < L. inseparabilis, that cannot be 
separated, < L. in- priv. + sejjarabilis, separa- 
ble.] Not separable ; incapable of being sepa- 
rated or disjoined; not to be parted. 
He fell into a sort of criticism upon magnanimity and 
courage, and argued that they were inseparable. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 350. 
Clouds, and intermingling mountain-tops, 
In one inseparable glory clad. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, x. 
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and insepara- 
ble. Webster, Second Speech on Foote's Resolution. 
Inseparable accident, in logic, an accident which can- 
not be separated from its subject. Inseparable ad- 
junct, in logic, an adjunct which cannot really be separated 
from its subject, although the latter may be conceived 
without the adjunct. Inseparable association. See 
association. Inseparable prefix, in ffrant., a prefix not 
having also the character of an independent word, and so 
not separable or to be separated from the forms to which 
it is added: as be- (of begin, etc.) in English and German, 
re- and con- in Latin, etc. 
inseparableness (in-sep'a-ra-bl-nes), n. In- 
separability. 
inseparably (in-sep'a-ra-bli), adv. In an in- 
separable manner ; so as not to be capable of 
being separated. 
Which shall I first bewail, 
Thy bondage or lost sight? 
Prison within prison 
Inseparably dark? Milton, S. A., 1. 154. 
The wheat and the tares grow together inseparably, 
and must either be spared together or rooted up together. 
Macaulay, Leigh Hunt. 
inseparate (in-sep'a-rat), a. [= It. inseparato, 
< LL. inseparattts, not separate, < L. in- priv.+ 
separatus, separate : see separate.] Not sepa- 
rate; united. 
Joy, which is iwcparate from those eyes. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 563). 
inseparation (in-sep-a-ra'shon), n. [< insepa- 
rate + -ion.] In bot.'j the congenital union of 
contiguous organs, as the petals of a gamopeta- 
lous corolla : a term proposed by Masters as a 
substitute for the terms coalescence and adna- 
tion. 
insepaiizedt, [Irreg. < insepar(ate) + -ize + 
-edf.] Inseparable. 
Knew well the Cares from Crowns inseparitfd. 
Sylvester, Memorials of Mortalitie, st. 43. 
insequentt (in'se-kwent), a. [< L. insequen(t-)s, 
ppr. of iiisequi, follow upon, pursue, < in, on, + 
sequi, follow: see sequent."] Following on; sub- 
sequent. 
The debt was not cancell'd to that rigid and hard ser- 
vant, for if he had his Apocha or quietance, to speak after 
the manner of men, he were free from all insequent de- 
mands. Bp. Backet, Abp. Williams, i. 25. 
inserenet (in-se-reV), a. [< L. inserenus, not 
serene, < in- priv. + seremis, serene : see serene.] 
Not serene ; unserene. 
inserenet (in-se-ren'), t>. t. [< inscrene, a.] To 
deprive of serenity ; disturb. 
Death stood by, 
Whose gastly presence inserenes my face. 
Davies, Holy Roode, p. 18. 
insert (in-sert'), v. t. [< L. insertus, pp. of in- 
serere (> It. inserire = Sp. Pg. Pr. iuserir = F. 
inserer), put, bring, or introduce into, insert, < 
in, in, 4- serere, join : see series. Cf. exsert.] 1. 
To put in ; place or cause to be placed in or 
among; introduce: as, to insert a key in a 
lock ; to insert an advertisement in a newspa- 
per. 
I will not here insert any consolatory sentences. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 530. 
Now the cleft rind inserted grafts receives, 
And yields an offspring more than Nature gives. 
Pop?, Vertumnus and Pomona, 1. 13. 
Since I have communicated to the world a plan which 
has given offeuce to some gentlemen whom it would not 
be very safe to disoblige, I must insert the following re 
monstrance. Addimn. The Tall Club. 
