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▪ I. insectile, a.1 and n.|ɪnˈsɛktɪl, -taɪl| [f. L. insect-um insect: cf. L. sectilis, f. sectus cut.] A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an insect; consisting of insects; also fig. resembling an insect, infesting like insects. Now rare.
a1626Bacon (J.), Insectile animals, for want of blood, run all out into legs. 1660Stillingfl. Iren. i. ii. (1662) 68 As he observes from Aristotle in Insectile Animals, the want of blood was the cause they ran out into so many legs. 1667Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 412 All these [works of Aristotle] are..overwhelmed and degraded by the swarms of Insectile Systemes and dilute Commentaries. 1877Ruskin Fors Clav. VII. lxxxi. 266 The insectile noise. 1891Voice (N.Y.) 21 May, They [orchards] are not responsible for the insectile armies that may attack them. †B. n. = insect n. Obs. (Cf. reptile.)
1615Crooke Body of Man 546 In those creatures which want eye-lids, as Locusts, Lobsters, Crabs, & such like insectiles, nature hath prouided certaine cauities, whereinto in the time of their repose..they receiue their whole eies. 1666J. Smith Old Age (ed. 2) 264 In those several Transformations and Renovations of the Ant, and Silk-worm, and many such Insectiles. ▪ II. † inˈsectile, a.2 Obs. rare. [f. in-3 + sectile.] Incapable of being cut or divided.
1635D. Person Varieties v. iv. §7 Atoms are little insectile bodies, not unlike the moates which wee see to tumble and rowle about in the sunne beames. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 189 Nor can that be destroyed..which, being insectile, has nothing to divide or oppose it. |