insulse

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Adjective edit

insulse (comparative more insulse, superlative most insulse)

(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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit

Silenus

Italian edit

Adjective edit

insulse

feminine plural of insulso

Latin edit

Adjective edit

īnsulse

vocative masculine singular of īnsulsus

References edit

“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.