† insidiatev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To lie in wait for; to plot against.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > conspire against [verb (transitive)]
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1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον v. 227 She was ambushed by two Centaures..who insidiating her virgin chastitie, shee [etc.].
a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. ii. 20 Pretending that he had privately insidiated his father's life.
1651 T. Stanley Poems 109 For this friends insidiate their friends.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 113 They..every hour insidiate our good.
2. intransitive. To lie in wait; to plot.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > conspire, intrigue [verb (intransitive)]
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1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 195 Wolues enter or insidiat, not sparing the flocke.
1639 W. Berkeley Lost Lady iv. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 605 She pays the fault of her abusing me, Insidiating with my Milesia's form, To search, and then betray my resolution.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > specifically of actions, qualities, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [adjective] > given to collusion
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1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. H2v What passionate and insidiating lookes Hee cast on her.
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 406 Admitting your meaning to be only of a deliberat insidiating murther.
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