insense

See also: insensé

English

Etymology

From Old French ensenser (“to enlighten, to bring to sense”), from en-+sens (“sense”).

Verb

insense (third-person singular simple present insenses, present participle insensing, simple past and past participle insensed)

1. (UK, dialect) To make to understand; to instruct.
   • 1825, Elijah Fenton, Mariamne:

     eagle eyes upon the insensed yet fearful monarch

References

• “insense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• senines