insense
See also: insensé
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French ensenser (“to enlighten, to bring to sense”), from en-+sens (“sense”).
Verb edit
insense (third-person singular simple present insenses, present participle insensing, simple past and past participle insensed)
- (UK, dialect) To make to understand; to instruct.
- 1825, Elijah Fenton, Mariamne:
- eagle eyes upon the insensed yet fearful monarch
References edit
- “insense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.