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Webster 1913 Edition
Insult
1.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
2.
Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.
Syn. – Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See
Affront
. In-sult′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Insulted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Insulting
.] [F.
insulter
, L. insultare
, freq. fr. insilire
to leap into or upon; pref. in-
in, on + salire
to leap. See Salient
.] 1.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
[Obs.]
Shak.
2.
To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse;
as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to
. insult
himIn-sult′
,Verb.
I.
1.
To leap or jump.
Give me thy knife, I will
insult
on him. Shakespeare
Like the frogs in the apologue,
insulting
upon their wooden king. Jer. Taylor.
2.
To behave with insolence; to exult.
[Archaic]
The lion being dead, even hares
insult
. Daniel.
An unwillingness to
insult
over their helpless fatuity. Landor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Insult
IN'SULT
,Noun.
1.
The act of leaping on. [Little used.]2.
Any gross abuse offered to another, either by words or actions; act or speech of insolence or contempt. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief.