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To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.

Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

ese words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill. All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the seve…

tion. Sir H. Wotton. I hope through the insinuation of Lord Scarborough to keep them here till further orders. Lady Cowper.

of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. Tillotson.

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.

; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The…

To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. Spenser.

Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon.

ws His end with mine involved. Milton. The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

which worships Satan or the Devil. The Izedis or Yezdis, the so-called Devil worshipers, still remain a numerous though oppressed people in Mesopotamia and adjacent countries. Tylor.

, who, for his cruelty to the Savior during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.

og on, jog on, the footpath way. Shak. So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot. Milton . The good old ways our sires jogged safely over. R. Browning.

A command to a horse, probably meaning "stand still." [Obs.] Chaucer.

An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matt. v. 18. Neither will they bate One jot of ceremony. Shak.

. . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.