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Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid. [Obs.] Cockeram.

alities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.

In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.

we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

eremptory; as, an authoritative tone. The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other. Swift. -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ly, adv -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

tes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine matter. -- Diabetes insipidus Etym: [NL., lit., diabetes], the form of diabetes in which the urine contains no abnormal constituent.

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid. [Obs.]

Stimulation. [Obs.] Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.

Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. [Obs.] Bacon.

Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The flummery of modern criticism. J. Morley.

Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.

Tasteless; insipid. [R.]

Tasteless; insipid. Sir T. Browne.

Insipid; dull; stupid. [Obs.] Milton.