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▪ I. insensate, a. (n.)|ɪnˈsɛnsət|
Also 6 erron. incensate.
[ad. late L. insensāt-us (Tertull., Vulg.), f. in- (in-3) + sensātus gifted with sense, f. sensus sense: see -ate2 2.]
1. Destitute of physical sense or feeling; without sensation, ‘senseless’, inanimate.
1519Interl. Four Elem. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 12 For plants and herbs grow and be insensate. 1538H. Medwall Nature (1896) 44/180 Yt shuld neyther fele here nor se But be as other incensate bodys be. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 13 Thus, like insensate stones, they sink down to their centre. 1799Wordsw. ‘Three Years she grew’ iii, Hers the silence and the calm, Of mute insensate things. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xviii. 242 Dull, pulseless, unresponsive as the insensate stone.
2. Wanting in mental or moral feeling; devoid of sensibility; unaffected, unmoved; unfeeling. (Of persons, or their qualities, actions, etc.)
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 30 b, What is he that is so..drouping of brain (I will not say) blockheded or insensate that is not moved with suche pleasure. 1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xiii. iii, No stone is more hard or insensate than a sinful heart. 1726–46Thomson Winter 844 The insensate barbarous trade of war. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. i, The heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §7. 665 James alone remained stubborn and insensate as of old.
†b. With of, to: Not feeling or perceiving; unconscious of; unaffected by. Obs.
1725Pope Odyss. xx. 414 The Suitors souls, insensate of their doom! c1800K. White Time 507 Insensate of the favouring boon. 1813T. Busby Lucretius vi. 15 Mortals..Still live insensate to their happy state.
3. Lacking sense or understanding; unintelligent, stupid, senseless, foolish.
a1529Skelton Replyc. Wks. 1843 I. 209 A moche fantasticall frenesy of their insensate sensualyte. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 94 That incensate custome of Gauelkinde..tendeth to the destruction of auncient and gentle houses. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 787 [They] to rebellious fight rallied thir Powers Insensate, hope conceiving from despair. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 37 Insensate! (with a sigh the king replies) Too long, misjudging, have I thought thee wise! 1839Alison Hist. Europe (1849–50) VII. xlii. §50. 131 Projects the most insensate [were] formed. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 114 It argues an insensate ignorance on the part of the Romans of what was truly great in their antagonists.
B. as n. An insensate person. [= F. un insensé.]
1877Morley Robespierre Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 92 Anyone who wishes to make such an opinion into a crime is an insenate. 1878― Diderot II. 205 A handful of insensates.
▪ II. † inˈsensate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. prec.]
trans. To render insensate.
1621R. Brathwait Nat. Embassy, Pleasure Argt. (1877) 5 To the end some thereof might ensnare and insensate the minds..of the..Arcadians. |