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Inroad (ĭnrōd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inroaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Inroading.] To make an inroad into; to invade. [Obs.]
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The Saracens . . . conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. Fuller.
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Inroll (?), v. t. See .
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Inrunning (?), n. The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
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Inrush (?), n. A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot.
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Inrush (?), v. i. To rush in. [Obs.] Holland.
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Insabbatati (?), n. pl. [LL. Insabatati. See 1st , and .] The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiarly cut or marked sabots, or shoes.
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Insafety (?), n. Insecurity; danger. [Obs.]
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Insalivation (?), n. (Physiol.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.
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Insalubrious (?), a. [Pref. in- not + salubrious: cf. L. insalubris, F. insalubre.] Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
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Insalubrity (?), n. [Cf. F. insalubrite.] Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. Boyle.
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Insalutary (?), a. [L. insaluteris : cf. F. insalutaire. See not, and .] 1. Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.
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2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
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Insanability (?), n. The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.
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Insanable (?), a. [L. insanabilis; cf. OF. insanable. See not, and .] Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.
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Insanableness, n. The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.
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Insanably, adv. In an incurable manner.
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Insane (?), a. [L. insanus. See not, and .] 1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See , 2.
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2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
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3. Causing insanity or madness. [R.]
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Or have we eaten on the insaneroot
That takes the reason prisoner ? Shak.
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4. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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I know not which was the insane measure. Southey.
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Insanely, adv. Without reason; madly; foolishly.
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Insaneness, n. Insanity; madness.
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Insaniate (?), v. t. To render unsound; to make mad. [Obs.] Feltham.
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Insanie (?), n. Insanity. [Obs.] Shak.
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Insanitary (?), a. Not sanitary; unhealthy; unsanitary; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
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Insanitation (?), n. Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.
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Insanity (?), n. [L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite.] 1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. Johnson.
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Without grace
The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.
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2. (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Syn. -- , , , , , , , , , , . Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.
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Insapory (?), a. [Pref. in- not + sapor.] Tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.
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Insatiability (?), n., [L. insatiabilitas; cf. F. insatiabilite.] The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness.
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Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.
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Insatiable (?), a. [F. insatiable, L. ionsatiabilis. See not, and .] Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
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“Insatiable of glory.” Milton.
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Insatiableness, n. Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability.
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The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.
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Insatiably, adv. In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably. “Insatiably covetous.” South.
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Insatiate (?), a. [L. insatiatus.] Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst.
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The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak.
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And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.
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Insatiately, adv. Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert.
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Insatiateness, n. The state of being insatiate.
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Insatiety (?), n. [L. insatietas: cf. F. insatiete. See .] Insatiableness. T. Grander.
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Insatisfaction (?), n. 1. Insufficiency; emptiness. [Obs.] Bacon.
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2. Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Insaturable (?), a. [L. insaturabilis: cf. F. insaturable. See not, and .] Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.
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Inscience (ĭnsh�ns), n. [L. inscientia: cf. F. inscience.] Lack of knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]
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Inscient (ĭnsh�nt), a. [L. insciens, -entis, ignorant. See not, and , .] Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly. [R.] N. Bacon.
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Inscient, a. [Pref. in- in + L. sciens knowing.] Having knowledge or insight; intelligent. [R.]
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Gaze on, with inscient vision, toward the sun. Mrs. Browning.
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Insconce (?), v. t. See .
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Inscribable (?), a. Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.
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Inscribableness, n. Quality of being inscribable.
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Inscribe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inscribed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inscribing.] [L. inscribere. See 1st , and .] 1. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
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Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.
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2. To mark with letters, characters, or words.
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O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. Pope.
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3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. Dryden.
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4. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
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5. (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
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☞ A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.
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Inscriber (?), n. One who inscribes. Pownall.
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Inscriptible (?), a. Capable of being inscribed; inscribable.
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Inscription (?), n. [L. inscriptio, fr. inscribere, inscriptum, to inscribe: cf. F. inscription. See .] 1. The act or process of inscribing.
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2. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
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3. (Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
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4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.
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Inscriptive (?), a. Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.
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Inscroll (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inscrolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inscrolling.] To write on a scroll; to record. [Written also inscrol.] Shak.
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Inscrutability (?), n. The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.
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Inscrutable (?), a. [L. inscrutabilis : cf. F. inscrutable. See not, and .] Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.
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'T is not in man
To yield a reason for the will of Heaven
Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl.
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Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. De Quincey.
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Inscrutableness, n. The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability.
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Inscrutably, adv. In an inscrutable manner.
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Insculp (?), v. t. [L. insculpere: cf. F. insculper. See 1st , and .] To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [Obs. & R.] Shak.
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Which he insculped in two likely stones. Drayton.
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Insculption (?), n. Inscription. [Obs.]
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Insculpture (?), n. An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.]
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On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.
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Insculptured (?), p. a. Engraved. Glover.
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Inseam (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inseamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Inseaming.] To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix. Pope.
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inseam (ĭnsēm), n. 1. An inside seam of an article of clothing; especially, the seam that runs from the crotch of a trouser leg down to the bottom.
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2. The length of the inseam of a trouser leg.
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Insearch (?), v. t. To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]
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Insecable (ĭnsĕkȧb'l), a. [L. insecabilis; pref. in- not + secabilis that may be cut: cf. F. insecable.] Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.
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Insect (ĭnsĕkt), n. [F. insecte, L. insectum, fr. insectus, p. p. of insecare to cut in. See . The name was originally given to certain small animals, whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided. Cf. .] 1. (Zoöl.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See .
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☞ The hexapod insects pass through three stages during their growth, viz., the larva, pupa, and imago or adult, but in some of the orders the larva differs little from the imago, except in lacking wings, and the active pupa is very much like the larva, except in having rudiments of wings. In the higher orders, the larva is usually a grub, maggot, or caterpillar, totally unlike the adult, while the pupa is very different from both larva and imago and is inactive, taking no food.
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2. (Zoöl.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
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3. (Zoöl.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
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4. Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. Thomson.
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Coloq. Insect powder ,a powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder.
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Insect (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
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2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
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Insecta (?), n. pl. [NL. See .] 1. (Zoöl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennæ, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheæ, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See , n.
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2. (Zoöl.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See .
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3. (Zoöl.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
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☞ The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: Hymenoptera, as the bees and ants; Diptera, as the common flies, gnats, and mosquitos; Aphaniptera, or fleas; Lepidoptera, or moths and butterflies; Neuroptera, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; Coleoptera, or beetles; Hemiptera, as bugs, lice, aphids; Orthoptera, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; Pseudoneuroptera, as the dragon flies and termites; Euplexoptera, or earwigs; Thysanura, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary.
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Insectary (?), n. A place for keeping living insects. -- Insectarium (#), n. [L.]
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Insectation (?), n. [L. insectatio. See .] The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
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Insectator (?), n. [L., fr. insectari to pursue, freq. fr. insequi. See .] A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Insected (?), a. Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
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Insecticide (?), n. [Insect + L. caedere to kill.] An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray. -- Insecticidal (#), a.
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Insectile (?), a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
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Insection (?), n. [See .] A cutting in; incisure; incision.
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Insectivora (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. insectum an insect + vorare to devour.] (Zoöl.) 1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.
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☞ They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order includes the moles, shrews, hedgehogs, tanrecs, and allied animals, also the colugo.
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2. A division of the Chiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.
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Insectivore (?), n.; pl. Insectivores (-vōrz). [F.] (Zoöl.) One of the Insectivora.
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Insectivorous (?), a. [See .] Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: (a) to plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc. (b) to the Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles.
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Insectologer (?), n. An entomologist. [Obs.]
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Insectology (?), n. [Insect + -logy: cf. F. insectologie.] Entomology. [Obs.]
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Insecure (?), a. 1. Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
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With sorrow and insecure apprehensions. Jer. Taylor.
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2. Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss. Bp. Hurg.
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The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and precarious. Mickle.
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Insecurely, adv. In an insecure manner.
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Insecureness, n. Insecurity.
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Insecurity (?), n.; pl. Insecurities (#). [Pref. in- not + security : cf. LL. insecuritas, F. insecurite.] 1. The condition or quality of being insecure; lack of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.
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2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of confidence.
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With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . unto arbitrary calculations. Sir T. Browne.
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A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. Burke.
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Insecution (?), n. [L. insecutio, fr. insequi p. p. insecutus. See .] A following after; close pursuit. [Obs.] Chapman.
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