insense
See also: insensé
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French ensenser (“to enlighten, to bring to sense”), from en-+sens (“sense”).
Verb
editinsense (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.