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† inˈsidiate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. insidiārī to lie in ambush, f. insidiæ ambush.]
1. trans. To lie in wait for; to plot against.
1624Heywood Gunaik. v. 227 She was ambushed by two Centaures..who insidiating her virgin chastitie, shee [etc.]. a1632T. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. ii. (1642) 20 Pretending that he had privately insidiated his father's life. 1651T. Stanley Poems 109 For this friends insidiate their friends. 1656― Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 204/2 They..every hour insidiate our Good.
2. intr. To lie in wait; to plot.
1626W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 195 Wolues enter or insidiat, not sparing the flocke. 1639W. Berkeley Lost Lady iv. iii. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 605 She pays the fault of her abusing me, Insidiating with my Milesia's form, To search, and then betray my resolution.
Hence † inˈsidiating ppl. a. Obs.
1632Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age iv. Wks. 1874 III. 409 What passionate and insidiating lookes Hee cast on her. 1671True Nonconf. 406 Admitting your meaning to be only of a deliberat insidiating murther. |